Early Modern Military History, 1450-1815 [Paperback]

Key military developments occurred in the Early Modern period, during which armies evolved from troops of medieval knights to Napoleon's mass levies. Firearms impelled change, necessitating new battlefield tactics and fundamentally altering siege and naval warfare. The size and cost of military forces expanded enormously, and new standing armies underpinned the growing absolutist power of princes. Academic experts from both sides of the Atlantic review these developments, discussing the medieval legacy, Spain, the Ottoman Turks, the Thirty Years War, Prussia, the ancien r?gime and the Napoleonic Wars, together with sea power, the American Revolution and warfare outside the West.Introduction: Was there a 'Military Revolution' in the Early Modern Period?; G.Mortimer The Medieval Legacy; C.J.Rogers Spanish Military Power and the Military Revolution; F.Gonz?lez de L?on Ottoman Expansion, 1451-1556: Consolidation of Regional Power, 1451-1503; R.Murphey Ottoman Expansion, 1451-1556: Dynastic Interest and International Power Status, 1503-56; R.Murphey Naval Power, 1450-1650: The Formative Age; J.Glete War by Contract, Credit and Contribution: The Thirty Years War; G.Mortimer The Prussian Military State; D.E.Showalter New Approaches under the Old Regime; P.H.Wilson The Sixty Years War in North America, 1754-1815; F.D.Cogliano Sea Power: The Struggle for Dominance, 1650-1815; R.Harding The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; A.Forrest A Wider Perspective: War Outside the West; J.Black Index

'a splendid addition to the pedagogical literature in early modern European history.' - Professor John Gagliardo, Boston University

JEREMY BLACK Professor of History, University of Exeter, UKFRANCIS D. COGLIANO Senior Lecturer in American History, University of Edinburgh, UKALAN FORREST Professor of Modern History, University of York, UKJAN GLETE Professor History, Stockholm University, SwedenFERNANDO GONZ?LEZ DE L?ON Associate Professor of History, Springfield Colllƒ!