Armies and Warfare in Europe, 1648-1789
Author: John Childs
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780719008801
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Author: John Childs
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780719008801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Charles Roger Childs
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780719034619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a description of how the Nine Years War affected the British Army, both in its actual operations in the theatre of war and in its size, operative capacity and costs. This war brought about radical changes in the sizes and the associated costs of the armies of Britain, France, Austria and the United Provinces in a relatively short period. For example, the size of field armies grew from an average of about 25,000 men during the Thirty Years' War to an average of about 100,000 men in 1695 during the Nine Years War. The costs of sustaining such huge field forces in terms of food, equipment and pay brought Britain and France, in particular, fiscal crisis and a shattered economy respectively, after the peace.
Author: Thomas A. Brady
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-07-13
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 052188909X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) prevented both a general reformation of the Church before 1520 and a national reformation thereafter. The resulting settlement maintained the public peace through politically structured religious communities (confessions), thereby avoiding further religious strife and fixing the confessions into the Empire's constitution. The Germans' emergence into the modern era as a people having two national religions was the reformation's principal legacy to modern Germany.
Author: Kelly Roscoe
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 2017-07-15
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 1680486225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The sixteenth century in Europe was a period of vigorous economic expansion that led to social, political, religious, and cultural transformations and established the early modern age. This resource explores the emergence of monarchial nation-states and early Western capitalism during this period. Also examined in depth are the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, which exacerbated tensions between states and contributed to the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). Readers will come to understand how these events developed, how they led to the age of exploration, and how they inform modern European history."
Author: Sandra Halperin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780521540155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHalperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures during the development of industrial capitalism in Europe, and the way in which these structures shaped states and state behavior and generated conflict. She documents European conflicts between 1789 and 1914, including small and medium scale conflicts often ignored by researchers and links these conflicts to structures characteristic of industrial capitalist development in Europe before 1945. This book revisits the historical terrain of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation (1944), however, it argues that Polanyi's analysis is, in important ways, inaccurate and misleading. Ultimately, the book shows how and why the conflicts both culminated in the world wars and brought about a 'great transformation' in Europe. Its account of this period challenges not only Polanyi's analysis, but a variety of influential perspectives on nationalism, development, conflict, international systems change, and globalization.
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-22
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 1351125974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars have tended to underrate the importance of war in the period 1650-1792, as there is a feeling that periods before and after were more consequential for military development. This collection of essays sets out to address this problem, probing the nature of warfare throughout Europe from the middle of the seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth.
Author: Christy L. Pichichero
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1501712292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy Pichichero makes a striking discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder, the military "band of brothers," and soldierly heroism all found their antecedents in the eighteenth-century French armed forces. Readers of The Military Enlightenment will be startled to learn of the many ways in which French military officers, administrators, and medical personnel advanced ideas of human and political rights, military psychology, and social justice.
Author: Hew Strachan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-07-28
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1134898215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough the eyes of the major theorists of the day, and discussing the key issues of modern warfare, Hew Strachan’s work examines the theory and practice of land warfare in Europe since 1700.
Author: Erica Charters
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1846317118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCivilians and War in Europe 1618–1815 is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at the role of civilians in early modern warfare, from the Thirty Years War to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Drawing on works by scholars in art, literature, history, and political theory, the contributors to this volume explore the continuities and transformations in warfare over the course of two hundred years, examining topics central to civilian and war dynamics, including incarceration, cultures of plunder, billeting, and wartime atrocities, in addition to the larger legal practices and philosophical underpinnings of warfare and its aftermath. Showcasing the complex ways civilians were involved in war—not just as anguished sufferers, but as individuals who fought back, who profited, and who negotiated for their own needs—Civilians and War in Europe probes what it meant to be a civilian in countries deeply involved in conflict.
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-02-12
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1134159226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis original book presents a global approach to eighteenth century warfare. Emphasis is placed on the importance of conflict in the period and the capacity for decisiveness in impact and development in method. Through this Jeremy Black extends the view beyond land to naval conflict. European Warfare in a Global Context offers a comparative approach, in the sense of considering Western developments alongside those elsewhere, furthermore it puts emphasis on conflict between Western and non-western powers. This approach necessarily reconsiders developments within the West, but also offers a shift in emphasis from standard narrative of the latter. This book is the ideal study of warfare for all students.