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The Firearm Revolution : From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fletcher, Catherine.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- A groundbreaking account of how firearms changed Europe and the world In Renaissance Italy, the gun was not only a tool of war but also a desirable object, a luxury item carried at court.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- A Note on Money
- Introduction
- Part I. The Military Context
- Chapter 1. The Italian Wars
- The development of the handgun
- Terminology and capability
- From artillery to handguns
- The rise of the arquebusiers
- The Sack of Brescia, 1512
- The Sack of Rome, 1527
- Writing about guns
- The later years of war
- Chapter 2. The Arms Industry of Brescia
- The establishment of an industry
- Valtrompia's privileges
- The export licensing system
- The challenge of religious reform
- Chapter 3. Arms Dealers and Auxiliary Industries
- A broker and his network
- The arms transactions
- Transport and distribution
- Ancillary services
- Part II. Beyond Warfare
- Chapter 4. Court Culture and Luxury Weapons
- Ambivalence
- The contours of elite gun ownership
- Wheellocks
- Guns as gifts
- Domesticating guns
- Experimental and novelty weapons
- Chapter 5. Gun Proliferation
- Civic militias
- Contests and the hunt
- Guns in the criminal records
- The contours of ownership
- Chapter 6. Gun Control
- General regulation
- Privileges, social status, and gun licensing
- Soldiers, militiamen, and regulation
- Arms-bearing for self-defence
- Part III. Beyond Italy
- Chapter 7. Assassinations
- Pakington and Pole
- Pier Luigi Farnese
- The miracle of Carlo Borromeo
- The assassination of the earl of Moray
- Shootings in the French Wars of Religion
- The assassination of William the Silent
- Chapter 8. Visual Culture
- Alexander the Great
- The Low Countries, Germany, and Switzerland
- Firearms in religious painting
- Historical depictions
- The Battle of Lepanto
- Religious wars
- Empire and guns in portraiture
- Chapter 9. The European Empires
- Morocco
- The Horn of Africa and Asia
- Southern and Western Africa
- The Americas
- From Mexico to Florence
- Color Plates.
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-28933-6
- 0-691-27269-7
- 9780691272696
- OCLC:
- 1574115864
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