Before The Military Revolution

Author : Alexander Querengässer
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789256727

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Before the Military Revolution examines European Warfare in the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1490. It is not restricted only to well-covered conflicts, like the Anglo-Scottish Wars or the Hundred Years War, but gives due weight to all regions of Europe, including the Empire, the Baltic, the Balkans and the Mediterranean, and considers developments in naval warfare. The Hussite Wars and the wars of the Teutonic Order and the Hanseatic League are covered, as is the expansion of Moscow, the Ottomans and Venice, and battles like Aussig (1426), Copenhagen (1428), Chojnice (1454) are discussed alongside Bannockburn and Agincourt. This age witnesses fundamental change. The feudal system of the High Middle Ages crumbled everywhere in Europe due to climatic change, economic crisis and population decline. This triggered a fiscalization of the military organization, the establishment of taxes and representation of the estates. This book argues that these changes are the most fundamental ones in the military and political organization in Europe until the rise of the constitutional state around 1800 and so comes closer to the original concept of a Military Revolution. It also takes a critical look at other often discussed developments of this age, like the Infantry and Artillery Revolution or the decline of cavalry. Combining a chronological and regional narrative with deeper analysis of themes like chivalry, strategy, economic warfare or military publications makes this book an indispensable read for everyone interested in late medieval history.

Author : Alexander Querengässer
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789256703

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Before the Military Revolution examines European Warfare in the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1490. It is not restricted only to well-covered conflicts, like the Anglo-Scottish Wars or the Hundred Years War, but gives due weight to all regions of Europe, including the Empire, the Baltic, the Balkans and the Mediterranean, and considers developments in naval warfare. The Hussite Wars and the wars of the Teutonic Order and the Hanseatic League are covered, as is the expansion of Moscow, the Ottomans and Venice, and battles like Aussig (1426), Copenhagen (1428), Chojnice (1454) are discussed alongside Bannockburn and Agincourt. This age witnesses fundamental change. The feudal system of the High Middle Ages crumbled everywhere in Europe due to climatic change, economic crisis and population decline. This triggered a fiscalization of the military organization, the establishment of taxes and representation of the estates. This book argues that these changes are the most fundamental ones in the military and political organization in Europe until the rise of the constitutional state around 1800 and so comes closer to the original concept of a Military Revolution. It also takes a critical look at other often discussed developments of this age, like the Infantry and Artillery Revolution or the decline of cavalry. Combining a chronological and regional narrative with deeper analysis of themes like chivalry, strategy, economic warfare or military publications makes this book an indispensable read for everyone interested in late medieval history.

Author : Alexander Querengässer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 1789256712

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Before the military revolution by Alexander Querengässer Pdf

"The model of a military revolution, the idea that military developments influenced the statebuilding process in Europe, is adapted to a couple of periods in early modern Europe. This book examines European Warfare in the late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1490. It doesn't restrict itself solely to well covered conflicts, like the Anglo-Scottish Wars or the Hundred Years War, but gives due weight to all regions of Europe, including the Empire, the Baltic, Balkans and Mediterranean and also considers developments in Naval Warfare. The Hussite Wars or the Wars of the Teutonic Order and the Hanseatic League are covered, as is the expansion of Moscow, the Ottomans of Venice and the analysis of battles like Aussig (1426), Copenhagen (1428), Chojnice (1454) will not will not be overshadowed by that of Bannockburn and Agincourt. This period witnessed fundamental change. The feudal system of the High Middle Ages crumbled everywhere in Europe due to climatic change, economic crisis and population decline. This triggered a fiscalisation of the military organisation, the establishment of taxes and representation of the estates. This book argues that these changes are the most fundamental ones in the military and political organisation in Europe until the rise of the constitutional state around 1800 and so comes closer to the original concept of a military revolution. It also takes a critical look at other often discussed developments of this age, like the infantry and artillery revolution or the decline of cavalry. The combination of a chronological and regional narrative with deeper analysis of themes like chivalry, strategy, economic warfare or military publications makes this book an indispensable read for anyone interested in late medieval history"--

Author : MacGregor Knox,Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 052180079X

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The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050 by MacGregor Knox,Williamson Murray Pdf

This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521376807

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The Military Revolution by Geoffrey Parker Pdf

Well before the Industrial Revolution, Europe developed the superior military potential and expertise that enabled her to dominate the world for the next two centuries. In this attractively illustrated and updated edition, Geoffrey Parker discusses the major changes in the military practice of the West during this time period--establishment of bigger armies, creation of superior warships, the role of firearms--and argues that these major changes amounted to a "military revolution" that gave Westerners a decided advantage over people of other continents. A new chapter addresses the controversies engendered by the previous edition.

Author : David Parrott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521514835

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The Business of War by David Parrott Pdf

This book offers a substantial reconsideration of early modern warfare and its relationship to the power of the state.

Author : Andrew Ayton,Leslie Price
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1860643531

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The Medieval Military Revolution by Andrew Ayton,Leslie Price Pdf

In recent years military history has moved out of its specialized ghetto and has come to be regarded as central to the mainstream study of the past. The concepts of a "military revolution" (consisting of the emergence of large infantry-based armies in early-modern Europe, the use of potent gunpowder weapons, and the rapid escalation of war costs) are now seen to have had far-reaching political and social consequences for European society. Indeed, war itself is now seen as a major engine of state development during this period. The essays in this volume set out to demonstrate the integration of military history with the broader concerns of historians. They also suggest that the military history of the Middle Ages was more dynamic than is often recognized, and that the military revolution needs to be interpreted by placing it in the context of rapid socio-political transformation.

Author : Daniel K. Richter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674072367

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Before the Revolution by Daniel K. Richter Pdf

America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans, but we rarely grapple with the complexity of the nation's pre-revolutionary past. In this pathbreaking revision, Daniel Richter shows that the United States has a much deeper history than is apparentÑthat far from beginning with a clean slate, it is a nation with multiple pasts that stretch back as far as the Middle Ages, pasts whose legacies continue to shape the present. Exploring a vast range of original sources, Before the Revolution spans more than seven centuries and ranges across North America, Europe, and Africa. Richter recovers the lives of a stunning array of peoplesÑIndians, Spaniards, French, Dutch, Africans, EnglishÑas they struggled with one another and with their own people for control of land and resources. Their struggles occurred in a global context and built upon the remains of what came before. Gradually and unpredictably, distinctive patterns of North American culture took shape on a continent where no one yet imagined there would be nations called the United States, Canada, or Mexico. By seeing these trajectories on their own dynamic terms, rather than merely as a prelude to independence, Richter's epic vision reveals the deepest origins of American history.

Author : Andrew Ayton,J. L. Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 0755623118

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The Medieval Military Revolution by Andrew Ayton,J. L. Price Pdf

"War was a major engine of modern state-development in the medieval and early modern periods throughout Europe. While the idea of a military revolution - the creation of modern armies and the centralized state - has been traditionally seen as a 17th-century development, more recent scholarship has placed it in the 16th century and before. The contributors to this book offer perspectives on the early modern period."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : J. C. Sharman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691210070

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Empires of the Weak by J. C. Sharman Pdf

What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans actually had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion from the late fifteenth to the late eighteenth centuries is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy earned by default because local land-oriented polities were largely indifferent to war and trade at sea. Europeans were overawed by the mighty Eastern empires of the day, which pioneered key military innovations and were the greatest early modern conquerors. Against the view that the Europeans won for all time, Sharman contends that the imperialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a relatively transient and anomalous development in world politics that concluded with Western losses in various insurgencies. If the twenty-first century is to be dominated by non-Western powers like China, this represents a return to the norm for the modern era. Bringing a revisionist perspective to the idea that Europe ruled the world due to military dominance, Empires of the Weak demonstrates that the rise of the West was an exception in the prevailing world order.

Author : Clifford J Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429975899

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The Military Revolution Debate by Clifford J Rogers Pdf

This book brings together, for the first time, the classic articles that began and have shaped the debate about the Military Revolution in early modern Europe, adding important new essays by eminent historians of early modern Europe to further this important scholarly interchange.

Author : Mark Charles Fissel,David John Trim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 1860645186

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The Military Revolution by Mark Charles Fissel,David John Trim Pdf

Was there a military revolution in early modern Europe and did it furnish the weapons of barbarism that led to industrialised warfare in the 20th century? That is the central issue of this book.

Author : James Hevia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139510448

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The Imperial Security State by James Hevia Pdf

The Imperial Security State explores an important but under-explored dimension of British imperialism - its information system and the close links between military knowledge and the maintenance of empire. James Hevia's innovative study focuses on route books and military reports produced by the British Indian Army military intelligence between 1880 and 1940. He shows that together these formed a renewable and authoritative archive that was used to train intelligence officers, to inform civilian policy makers and to provide vital information to commanders as they approached the battlefield. The strategic, geographical, political and ethnographical knowledge that was gathered not only framed imperial strategies towards colonized areas to the east but also produced the very object of intervention: Asia itself. Finally, the book addresses the long-term impact of the security regime, revealing how elements of British colonial knowledge have continued to influence contemporary tactics of counterinsurgency in twenty-first-century Iraq and Afghanistan.

Author : Peter Allan Lorge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0511411863

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The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb by Peter Allan Lorge Pdf

Author : Andrei Martyanov
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781949762082

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The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs by Andrei Martyanov Pdf

The liberal world order, a euphemism for American global hegemony, is crumbling at an accelerating pace. While its collapse is tangible, the outcome of such a collapse remains a matter of speculation and public debate. The US is desperately seeking to preserve the status quo, which rests primarily upon recognition of its military supremacy. For millennia, warfare has been a driving force behind changes in the geopolitical status of power configurations (whether of peoples, states or empires), and it remains so, today. Accordingly, short of actual warfare, the assessment (modeling) of relative military power plays an inordinate role in the determination of national status. Models of emerging changes in military capability range from relatively simple to extremely complex ones. Viewing the evolution of the current system of international relations outside the framework of actual, rather than propaganda-driven, military capabilities is not only useless, it is dangerous since states’ mistaken assessment of their own and other states’ military power can lead to misadventures and catastrophic mistakes. The United States’ efforts to preserve not just its dominance but the perception of its dominance are bound to fail for many important reasons, none more important than what is often misidentified in past American military-theoretical hypotheses about the future of warfare, known generically as the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). This book explains why those hypotheses are failing and will continue to fail, and addresses the real RMA. In the end, technological development in weaponry as a response to tactical, operational and strategic requirements defines not only a nation’s geopolitical status but determines the global order. Assessments of military capacity, if reality-based, serve as good predictors of the level of volatility in international relations and the level of violence globally. This book gives an insight into the evolution of weapons and the way they influenced international relations in the 20th and 21st centuries. It also defines Revolution in Military Affairs as manifested via policy, politics, and technology. It reviews some models which are useful in assessing the current geopolitical situation. This book also tries to give a forecast of the future development of warfare and the ways in which it is going to change the whole system of the international relations, hopefully towards a new geopolitical equilibrium.