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Geoff Mortimer
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St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-viii
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- Fernando González de León
Pages 25-42
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Back Matter
Pages 227-228
About this book
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.
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'a splendid addition to the pedagogical literature in early modern European history.' - Professor John Gagliardo, Boston University
Editors and Affiliations
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St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK
Geoff Mortimer
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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