Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: warfare, history, european
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-10-28
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415275318
ISBN-13: 9780415275316

The onset of the Italian Wars in 1494, subsequently seen as the onset of ’modern warfare’, provides the starting point for this impressive survey of European Warfare in early modern Europe. Huge developments in the logistics of war combined with exploration and expansion meant interaction with extra-European forms of military might. Jeremy Black looks at technological aspects of war as well social and political developments and effects during this key period of military history. This sharp and compact analysis contextualises European developments and as establishes the global signi

Author: William J. Hambli
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: warfare, history, ancient, east
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2006-04-12
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415255899
ISBN-13: 9780415255899

The only book available that covers this subject, Warfare in the Ancient Near East is a groundbreaking and fascinating study of ancient near Eastern military history from the Neolithic era to the middle Bronze Ages. Drawing on an extensive range of textual, artistic and archaeological data, William J. Hamblin synthesizes current knowledge and offers a detailed analysis of the military technology, ideology and practices of Near Eastern warfare. Paying particular attention to the earliest known examples of holy war ideaology in Mesopotamia and Egypt, Hamblin focuses on: * recruitment and trainin

Author: David S. Bachrach
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: warfare, history, germany, century, tenth
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2012-10-18
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1843837625
ISBN-13: 9781843837626

Over the course of half a century, the first two kings of the Saxon dynasty, Henry I (919-936) and Otto I (936-973), waged war across the length and breadth of Europe. Ottonian armies campaigned from the banks of the Oder in the east to the Seine in the west, and from the shores of the Baltic Sea in the north, to the Adriatic and Mediterranean in the south. In the course of scores of military operations, accompanied by diligent diplomatic efforts, Henry and Otto recreated the empire of Charlemagne, and established themselves as the hegemonic rulers in Western Europe. This book shows how Henry

Author: Karl F. Friday
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: warfare, history, japan, state, samurai, medieval
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-12-29
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0415329639
ISBN-13: 9780415329637

This book is a broadly-cast study of the purposes, methods, technology and mores of warfare among the early samurai, and their relationship to the polity and social structure of tenth to fourteenth century Japan.

Author: J.J.L. Gomma
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: warfare, empire, history, highroads, frontiers, indian, mughal
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-10-18
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0415239893
ISBN-13: 9780415239899

Based on a vast range of primary sources from Europe and India, this thorough study explores the wider geo-political, cultural and institutional context of the Mughal military. It also details practical and technological aspects of combat, such as gunpowder technologies and the animals used in battle. It’s comparative analysis throws new light on much-contested theories of gunpowder empires and the spread of the military revolution.

Author: Jan Glete
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: warfare, europe, history, transformation, conflicts, sea, maritime
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-12-15
List price: $43.93
ISBN-10: 0415214556
ISBN-13: 9780415214551

Warfare at Sea is the first truly international study of warfare at sea in this period. Jan Glete places the history of warfare at sea within a readable, modern framework, bringing together historical research and analyzing questions on war, statebuilding, strategy and tactics, and economic and technological change. Commencing in the late fifteenth century with the introduction of gunpowder in naval warfare and rapid transformation of maritime trade, the book focuses on the scope and limitations of war before the advent of big battle fleets from the middle of the seventeenth century. The

Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: warfare, history, context, global, european
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-04-04
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415394724
ISBN-13: 9780415394727

This original book presents a global approach to eighteenth century warfare. Emphasis is�placed on the importance of conflict in the period and the capacity for decisiveness in impact and development in method. Through this Jeremy Black extends the view beyond land to naval conflict. European Warfare in a Global Context offers a comparative approach, in the sense of considering Western developments alongside those elsewhere, furthermore it puts emphasis on conflict between Western and non-western powers. This approach necessarily reconsiders developments within the West, but also offers a s