Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500-1800 / editor, Brian J. Davies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, Brian L., 1953-

Series:

History of warfare ; 72.

History of warfare, 1385-7827 ; v. 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe, Eastern--History, Military--16th century.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Eastern--History, Military--17th century.

Europe, Eastern--History, Military--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume examines continuities and new developments in the conduct of warfare in early modern Eastern Europe from the early sixteenth century, when Ottoman imperial expansion reached the Danube and Crimea, to the late eighteenth century, when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned out of existence and Russia rolled back Ottoman power from Ukraine and Moldavia. Contributors include specialists in Russian, Polish, Ottoman, Habsburg, Cossack, and Crimean Tatar history. The essays engage military history understood in the broadest sense and treat such subjects as taxation, recruitment, the sociology and culture of officer corps, logistics, command-and-control, and ideology as well as technology and tactics. The volume aims at facilitating comparative study of Eastern European military development across Eastern Europe and its points of divergence from military practice in the West. Contributors are Virginia H. Aksan, Brian J. Boeck, Peter B. Brown, Brian Davies, Dariusz Kupisz, Erik Lund, Janet Martin, Oleg Nozdrin, Victor Ostapchuk, Geza Palffy and Carol Belkin Stevens.

Contents:

Economic effectiveness of the Pomest'e System: an examination of estate incomes and military expenses in the mid-16th century / Janet Martin

The Habsburg defense system in Hungary against the Ottomans in the 16th century: a catalyst of military development in Central Europe / Geza Palff y

The Polish-Lithuanian army in the reign of King Stefan Bathory, (1576-1586) / Dariusz Kupisz

Guliai-Gorod, Wagenburg, and Tabor tactics in 16th-17th century Muscovy and Eastern Europe / Brian Davies

The Flodorf Project: Russia in the international mercenary market in the early seventeenth century / Oleg A. Nozdrin

Food and supply: logistics and the early modern Russian army / Carol B. Stevens

Crimean Tatar long-range campaigns: the view from Remmal Khoja's The history of Sahib Gerey Khan / Victor Ostapchuk

The siege of Azov in 1641: military realities and literary myth / Brian J. Boeck

The generation of 1683: the scientific revolution and generalship in the Habsburg army, 1686-1723 / Erik R. Lund

Command and control in the seventeenth-century Russian army / Peter B. Brown

Ottoman military power in the eighteenth century / Virginia Aksan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-42628-5

9786613426284

90-04-22198-0

OCLC:

773566756

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004221987 DOI