04641oam 2200781I 450 991045197930332120210114015447.01-135-36156-897866101440131-280-14401-70-203-98122-71-283-70755-11-135-36157-610.4324/9780203981221 (CKB)1000000000456419(EBL)237441(OCoLC)299572766(SSID)ssj0000312943(PQKBManifestationID)11239131(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000312943(PQKBWorkID)10332539(PQKB)10879676(SSID)ssj0000268968(PQKBManifestationID)12063606(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268968(PQKBWorkID)10236745(PQKB)11571992(MiAaPQ)EBC237441(MiAaPQ)EBC5292681(OCoLC)179124760(Au-PeEL)EBL5292681(CaONFJC)MIL14401(OCoLC)1027143930(EXLCZ)99100000000045641920180331d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWar in the early modern world /edited by Jeremy BlackLondon :UCL Press,1999.1 online resource (280 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-85728-688-X 1-85728-687-1 Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Contributors notes; Preface; Chapter One Introduction; The rise of the West; Technological change; Military developments and state-building; Notes; Further reading; General; Important works not covered in other lists include; Chapter Two Warfare at sea 1450-1815; Maritime trade, state formation and warfare at sea; A Eurocentric form of warfare; Constraints on early modern naval warfare: climate, human endurance and technology; Changing frameworks and maritime expansion: warfare at sea, 1450-1650Bureaucratic battle fleets: warfare at sea, 1650-1720Oceanic and continental power struggles: warfare at sea, 1720-1815; Further reading; Chapter Three Warfare in Japan 1467-1600; Notes; Further reading; Chapter Four War and warfare in China 1450-1815; The Battle of Tumu to the death of Hideyoshi; The rise of Nurhaci and the Liaodong campaign; The Qing conquest; Yongzheng and Qianlong's reigns; Conclusion; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter Five Warhorse and gunpowder in India1 c. 1000-1850; Introduction; The inner frontier; Fitna; The horse-warrior revolution (1000-1200)Sieges and forts (1200-1400)The false dawn of gunpowder (1400-1750); The gunpowder revolution (1750-1850); Conclusion; Notes; Further reading; General; Elephants and horses; Gunpowder; Fortification and sieges; The military labour market; Regional developments; East India Company; Chapter Six Warfare, slave trading and European influence: Atlantic Africa 1450-1800; The geographical background; The art of war in sixteenth century Africa; Europeans in African war; War and the slave trade; Notes; Further reading; Chapter Seven Ottoman war and warfare 1453-1812; IntroductionThe formative period 1300-1453The imperial age 1453-1566; The limits of empire 1566-1699; The compromise 1699-1812; Notes; Further reading; General; 1300-1453: the formative period; 1453-1566: the imperial age; 1566-1699: the limits of empire; 1699-1812: the compromise; Chapter Eight European warfare 1450-1815; 1450-1530; 1530-1660; 1660-1720; 1720-89; 1789-1815; Notes; Further reading; Chapter Nine War, politics and the conquest of Mexico; Cortés and the conquest of Mexico1; Explaining the conquest; Reinterpreting the conquest; Notes; Further readingChapter Ten European-Native American warfare in North America, 1513-1815Notes; Further reading; IndexA collection of essays charting the developments in military practice and warfare across the world in the early modern and modern periods.Military art and scienceHistory - GeneralHILCCHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCElectronic books.Military art and science.History - GeneralHistory & Archaeology355.00903Black Jeremy144601AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910451979303321War in the early modern world2447792UNINA