War and conflict in the early modern world : 1500-1700 / Brian Sandberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandberg, Brian, 1968- author.

Series:

War and conflict through the ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--History--16th century.

War.

War--History--17th century.

War and society--History--16th century.

War and society.

War and society--History--17th century.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 362 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016.

Summary:

In this latest addition to the War and Conflict Through the Ages series, Brian Sandberg offers a truly global examination of the intersections between war, culture, and society in the early modem period. He traces the innovative military technologies and practices that emerged around 1500, and then explores the different forms of warfare - including dynastic war, religious warfare, raiding warfare, and peasant revolt - that shaped conflicts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He explains how significant social, economic, and political developments transformed warfare on laud and at sea at a time of global imperialism and growing mercantilism, forcing states and military systems to respond to rapidly changing situations. Engaging and insightful, War and Conflict in the Early Modern World will appeal to scholars and students of world history and the early modern period, as well as to those interested in the broader relationship between war and society. Book jacket.

Contents:

Innovative warfare, 1450s-1520s

Maritime conflict and colonial expansion, 1490s-1530s

Schism and social conflict, 1510s-1560s

Dynastic war and state development, 1520s-1580s

Noble violence, 1520s-1620s

Sectarian violence and religious warfare, 1560s-1640s

Raiding warfare, 1580s-1640s

Peasant revolt and rural conflict, 1590s-1650s

Ethnic conflict, 1620s-1660s

Rebellion and civil warfare, 1630s-1660s

Mercantile war, 1630s-1690s

Territorial war, 1660s-1700s

Conclusion: c. 1700.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780745646022

0745646026

9780745646039

0745646034

OCLC:

933273707

Publisher Number:

9780745646022

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