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Book Synopsis The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659 by : Geoffrey Parker
Download or read book The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659 written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised second edition of the classic study, looking at Habsburg Spain's handling of the Dutch Revolt.
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Book Synopsis The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659 by : Geoffrey Parker
Download or read book The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659 written by Geoffrey Parker and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Road to Rocroi by : Fernando González de León
Download or read book The Road to Rocroi written by Fernando González de León and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eighty Years War (1567-1659) has been the subject of important monographs but the high command of the Army of Flanders, which played a decisive role in the making of Spanish strategy and was in charge of its tactics, has eluded detailed scrutiny. This work, the first study of an early modern officer corps, examines the culture, class structure, and combat effectiveness of the largest army of its day. Combining approaches and insights from social, cultural and military history, it traces the evolution of the leading cadres of the legendary tercios in relation to major trends such as aristocratization and military modernization while revising recent perspectives on Spain’s war against the Dutch and the French in the Low Countries.
Book Synopsis The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road 1567-1659 by : Geoffrey Parker
Download or read book The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road 1567-1659 written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975-03-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Army of Flanderns and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659 by : Geoffrey Parker
Download or read book The Army of Flanderns and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659 written by Geoffrey Parker and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Warfare by : Geoffrey Parker
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Warfare written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-29 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War is a compelling subject. It is common to almost all known societies and periods of history. The Cambridge History of Warfare, first published in 2005, provides a detailed account of war in the West from antiquity to the present day, and is unique because of its controversial thesis that war in western societies has followed a unique path leading to western dominance of the globe. From the Greek victory at Marathon to the Gulf War, readable and authoritative, The Cambridge History of Warfare places in context the key events in the history of armed engagement. All aspects of war on land, sea, and in the air are covered: weapons and technology; strategy and defense; discipline and intelligence; mercenaries and standing armies; cavalry and infantry; chivalry and Blitzkrieg; guerilla assault and nuclear arsenals. This volume, first published as The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare, includes maps and an updated bibliography.
Book Synopsis The Road to Rocroi by : Fernando González de León
Download or read book The Road to Rocroi written by Fernando González de León and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The road to Rocroi, the duke of Alba, the count-duke of Olivares and the high command of the Spanish army in Flanders in the Eighty Years War, 1567-1659 by : Fernando González de León
Download or read book The road to Rocroi, the duke of Alba, the count-duke of Olivares and the high command of the Spanish army in Flanders in the Eighty Years War, 1567-1659 written by Fernando González de León and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Europe in Flames written by John Matusiak and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'War,' wrote Cardinal Richelieu, 'is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men'. Yet the prelate's mournful observation scarcely begins to encapsulate the full complexity and unspeakable horror of the greatest man-made calamity to befall Europe before the twentieth century. Claiming far more lives proportionately than either the First or Second World Wars, it was a contest involving all the major powers of Europe, in which vast mercenary armies extracted an incalculable toll upon helpless civilian populations as their commanders and the men who equipped them frequently grew rich on the profits. Swedish troops alone are said to have destroyed some 2,000 German castles, 18,000 villages and 1,500 towns, while other vast armies in the pay of Spain, France, the Holy Roman Emperor and a host of pettier princelings brought death to as many as 8 million souls. Rarely has such a perplexing tale been more in need of a new account that is both compelling and informed, and no less comprehensible than comprehensive.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Warfare by : Geoffrey Parker
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Warfare written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Book Synopsis The Road to Rocroi by : Francisco Javier González de León
Download or read book The Road to Rocroi written by Francisco Javier González de León and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756-1775 by : H. M. Scott
Download or read book The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756-1775 written by H. M. Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the European states-system was transformed by the military rise of Prussia and Russia.
Book Synopsis The Road to Rocroi by : Fernando J. González de Léon
Download or read book The Road to Rocroi written by Fernando J. González de Léon and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Irish in the Spanish Armies in the Seventeenth Century by : Eduardo de Mesa
Download or read book The Irish in the Spanish Armies in the Seventeenth Century written by Eduardo de Mesa and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a wealth of detail on how "the wild geese" - the Irish who refused to submit to the English - played a significant role in the armies of Spain. It is well-known that many Irishmen who refused to submit to the English in the reigns of Elizabeth and the early Stuart kings, including the famous earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell, went to fight for the king of Spain, but what they did when they joined the Spanish armies is much less well-known. This book provides a wealth of detail on the activities of the Irish in the Spanish armies in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It outlines who the Irish soldiers were, how they were recruited and the terms under which they served. It discusses their military roles both in the wars in Flanders between the Spanish and their former Dutch subjects, and, later, in the Hispanic peninsula, showing how the Irish were often employed as elite troops who made significant contributions to major military actions, such as the siege of Breda in 1624. It examines military tactics, explores the politics of the Spanish armies, showing how the Irish fitted in, and discusses how, when the rebellion of 1641 broke out in Ireland, many Irish soldiers returned to Ireland to resume the fight against the English. Eduardo de Mesa completed hisdoctorate at University College Dublin. He is the author of La pacificación de Flandes. Spínola y las campañas de Frisia (1604-1609) (2009), and Discurso Militar del Marqués de Aytona (2008), co-author of La Monarquía de Felipe III (2008), and author of numerous articles, chapters in edited collections, and encyclopedia entries.
Book Synopsis The Frigid Golden Age by : Dagomar Degroot
Download or read book The Frigid Golden Age written by Dagomar Degroot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that reached its chilliest point between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The precocious economy, unusual environment, and dynamic intellectual culture of the Dutch Republic in its seventeenth-century Golden Age allowed it to thrive as neighboring societies unraveled in the face of extremes in temperature and precipitation. By tracing the occasionally counterintuitive manifestations of climate change from global to local scales, Degroot finds that the Little Ice Age presented not only challenges for Dutch citizens but also opportunities that they aggressively exploited in conducting commerce, waging war, and creating culture. The overall success of their Republic in coping with climate change offers lessons that we would be wise to heed today, as we confront the growing crisis of global warming.
Book Synopsis The Dark Path by : Williamson Murray
Download or read book The Dark Path written by Williamson Murray and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world Heraclitus wrote that "war is the father of all," and it has formed much of the modern world. Although the fundamental nature of war has not altered over the centuries, constant change, innovation, and adaptation have repeatedly reshaped how wars are fought in the West. Revolutions in military practice cannot be separated from larger social developments in areas like logistics, finance and economics, and the culture of military organizations. In The Dark Path, Williamson Murray argues that the history of warfare in the West hinged on five revolutions, which both reflected the social, political, and economic conditions that produced them and in turn influenced how those conditions evolved. These five key turning points are the advent of the modern state, which formed bureaucracies and professional militaries; the Industrial Revolution, which produced the financial and industrial means to sustain and equip large armies; the French Revolution, which provided the ideological basis needed to sustain armies through continent-sized wars; the merging of the Industrial and French Revolutions in the U.S. Civil War; and the accelerating integration of technological advancement, financial capacity, ideology, and government that unleashed the modern capacity for total warfare. An ambitious work of synthesis, this book shows how the world continually re-creates war--and how war, in turn, continually re-creates the world.
