Early Modern Military History, 1450-1815

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: Was There a ‘Military Revolution’ in the Early Modern Period?

   • Geoff Mortimer

   Pages 1-5

3. The Medieval Legacy

   • Clifford J. Rogers

   Pages 6-24

4. Spanish Military Power and the Military Revolution

   • Fernando González de León

   Pages 25-42

5. Ottoman Expansion, 1451–1556 I. Consolidation of Regional Power, 1451–1503

   • Rhoads Murphey

   Pages 43-59

6. Ottoman Expansion, 1451–1556 II. Dynastic Interest and International Power Status, 1503–56

   • Rhoads Murphey

   Pages 60-80

7. Naval Power, 1450–1650: The Formative Age

   • Jan Glete

   Pages 81-100

8. War by Contract, Credit and Contribution: The Thirty Years War

   • Geoff Mortimer

   Pages 101-117

9. The Prussian Military State

   • Dennis E. Showalter

   Pages 118-134

10. New Approaches under the Old Regime

    • Peter H. Wilson

    Pages 135-154

11. The Sixty Years War in North America, 1754–1815

    • Francis D. Cogliano

    Pages 155-176

12. Sea Power: The Struggle for Dominance, 1650–1815

    • Richard Harding

    Pages 177-195

13. The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

    • Alan Forrest

    Pages 196-211

14. A Wider Perspective: War outside the West

    • Jeremy Black

    Pages 212-226

15. Back Matter

    Pages 227-228

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Key military developments occurred in the Early Modern period, during which armies evolved from troops of medieval knights to Napoleon's mass levies. Firearms impelled change, necessitating new battlefield tactics and fundamentally altering siege and naval warfare. The size and cost of military forces expanded enormously, and new standing armies underpinned the growing absolutist power of princes. Academic experts from both sides of the Atlantic review these developments, discussing the medieval legacy, Spain, the Ottoman Turks, the Thirty Years War, Prussia, the ancien régime and the Napoleonic Wars, together with sea power, the American Revolution and warfare outside the West.

• Ancien Régime
• Battlefield
• early modern period
• Expansion
• history
• military history
• Napoleon
• revolution
• Russia
• Spain

'a splendid addition to the pedagogical literature in early modern European history.' - Professor John Gagliardo, Boston University

• St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK

  Geoff Mortimer

JEREMY BLACK Professor of History, University of Exeter, UK FRANCIS D. COGLIANO Senior Lecturer in American History, University of Edinburgh, UK ALAN FORREST Professor of Modern History, University of York, UK JAN GLETE Professor History, Stockholm University, Sweden FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ DE LÉON Associate Professor of History, Springfield College Massachusets, USA RICHARD HARDING Principal Lecturer, University of Westminster, UK RHOADS MURPHEY Reader in Ottoman Studies at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, UK CLIFFORD J. ROGERS Associate Professor of History, United States Military Academy, West Point, USA DENNIS E. SHOWALTER Professor of History, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, USA PETER H. WILSON Professor of Early Modern History, University of Sunderland, UK

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