European Warfare, 1660-1815 - Hardcover

European Warfare 1660-1815.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Sehr gut. X, 276 p., maps. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Somewhat rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. / Etwas berieben, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - In this incisive study, Jeremy Black presents a wide-ranging analysis of European land and naval warfare from the time of the military revolution of the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Focusing not only on warfare in Europe but also on the complex conflicts that involved European states outside Europe (such as the British victories over the French in North America and India), Black assesses the conduct, cost, and consequences of European wars for major and minor powers. Exploring more fully than previous scholars the naval dimension of European warfare and giving added prominence to military activity in eastern Europe, Black challenges Michael Roberts's view that a military revolution took place between 1560 and 1660. He argues that the century following 1660 was considerably more important in terms of the great expansion in the size of many European armed forces, the development of new tactics and weaponry, and the increased impact of military organization in society. Drawing on previously unknown documents and on an unrivaled knowledge of the secondary literature, Black provides a chronological narrative and a sociology of armies and war that shed new light on many important battles of the past. - Jeremy Black is professor of history, director of the Research Foundation and Society of Fellows, and associate director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Durham. ISBN 9780300061703 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 585 Original cloth with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1183205

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