European military rivalry, 1500-1750 : fierce pageant / Gregory Hanlon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanlon, Gregory, 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--History, Military--1492-1648.

Europe.

History, Military.

Europe--History, Military--1648-1789.

Genre:

Military history.

Physical Description:

xviii, 318 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"European Military Rivalry, 1500-1750: Fierce Pageant examines more than two hundred years of international rivalry across Western, Central, and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean rim. Drawing heavily upon international scholarship over the last half-century, European Military Rivalry, 1500-1750: Fierce Pageant will be of great use to undergraduate students studying military history and early modern Europe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Renaissance innovations p. 1

The logic of conquest p. 1

The advent of gunpowder warfare p. 7

Constant war spurs financial innovation p. 9

2 Clash of civilizations 1550-1610 p. 13

The Ottoman threat from Eastern Europe p. 13

Mediterranean menace p. 23

Crusade in Flanders 1568-1609 p. 35

3 Modern fortification and its impact p. 47

Cannon versus medieval walls p. 47

Advent of the bastioned trace p. 49

Italian engineers and their offspring in Northern and Central Europe p. 54

Modern militias p. 59

4 French wars of religion 1561-1629 p. 63

The French reformation p. 63

A godly insurgency 1560-1572 p. 65

War of the League 1588-1598 p. 71

End of the Protestant menace p. 73

5 Europe's first great war 1618-1659 p. 78

German civil war 1618-1648 p. 78

The eighty years' war round two p. 87

Franco-Spanish war 1635-1659 p. 89

British civil war 1639-1653 p. 94

6 The age of military entrepreneurs p. 100

Where soldiers came from p. 100

Contracting out war p. 104

Decline of entrepreneurial scope p. 113

Privateer navies in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean p. 116

7 The advent of standing armies and navies p. 120

Birth of a giant: the French army p. 120

Competing armies p. 128

Fra of standing navies p. 138

8 Ottoman wars in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries p. 144

End of the classical era after 1610 p. 144

Venetian epic in the Mediterranean 1638-1718 p. 148

New Hungary wars p. 155

9 The wars against French ascendancy 1667-1714 p. 171

French potential unleashed p. 171

French defence by aggression 1680-1697 p. 178

The threat of Bourbon world hegemony p. 185

10 The classical campaign p. 196

Winter preparations p. 196

Small war and foraging p. 201

War of manoeuvre p. 207

Winding down the campaign p. 213

11 The classical siege in the age of Vauban p. 218

Scaling up the bastioned fortress p. 218

The labour of besiegers p. 222

La hours of the besieged p. 231

12 The classical battle p. 237

Offering battle p. 237

Cavalry p. 242

Infantry in battle p. 245

Aftermath of carnage p. 249

13 War finance in the classical age 1689-1720 p. 254

Paying taxes in the age of absolutism p. 254

War and public debt p. 263

Conclusion: melting the debt p. 268

Conclusion: eighteenth-century continuity p. 272

Technological stasis p. 272

Overturning Utrecht p. 273

The Habsburg succession in Germany p. 276.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hanlon, Gregory, 1953- European military rivalry, 1500-1750

ISBN:

9781138368972

1138368970

9781138368989

1138368989

OCLC:

1129725110