The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe - David Parrott

Reducere. This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whe...

Reducere. This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whe...

This provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the 'information revolution' over the period 1450-1700, when changes in the generation...

Reducere. In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two...

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. Jan Glete examines this military ch...

Description"To win, we must endeavour to be the stronger of the two at the point of impact. Our only hope of this lies in making our own choice of ...

A comprehensive and up-to-date study of the combat and logistics vehicles which formed part of the German contingent that fought in the Spanish Civ...

Reducere. This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States. Much of the canonical literature on civil-military relations was eit...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

The desert war in Libya and Egypt between 1940 and 1942 has deservedly attracted the attention of many historians. Fought in an unforgiving yet str...

Reducere. I.A.A.Thompson, Emeritus Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, is the author of War and Government in Habsburg Spain, a seminal study of the impa...

The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written...

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Reducere. Let's review the events leading to and during the War of 1812. Understand how the War of 1812 made the rest of the world realize that the United St...

Reducere. "Suzanne Simons is a masterful storyteller. But make no mistake--Master of War is not a work of fiction....A powerful and true account."--Wolf Blit...

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician, and it was ...

DescriptionCrammed into cattle trucks and deported to camps, shot and buried in mass graves, or force-marched to death, over 1.5 million Armenians ...

This edited volume examines the role of religion in diplomacy in early modern Europe since the Reformations. It addresses three main areas where qu...

Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Weste...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Claudia SwanIllustration(s): 85 color illus.Number of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 2...

This new edition of Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey has been thoroughly updated with significant changes designed to reflect the newest schola...

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From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, M...

Military Adaptation in War: With Fear of Change - Williamson Murray

The German Army lost two consecutive wars and the conclusion is often drawn that it simply wasn't able to cope with its opponents. This image is co...

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

Reducere. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing toge...

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

DescriptionThis fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to reflect ...

Reducere. "The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar des...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of medieval battles *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading In the time period betw...

Reducere. DescriptionThe liberal world order, a euphemism for American global hegemony, is crumbling at an accelerating pace. While its collapse is tangible,...

Reducere. Under one cover, an edited collection of the best works by noted military historians on the importance of military logistics in World War II. *** P...

Description The War to End All Wars is considered by many to be the best single account of America's participation in World War I. Covering famous ...

The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book.From Francis Bacon to Barack...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Basile BaudezIllustration(s): 176 color illus.Number of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

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DescriptionMichel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to ha...

DescriptionWhat was it like to be a military combat photographer in the most photographed war in history -- the Vietnam War? Shooting Vietnam takes...

A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingd...

"Feeling Exclusion investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and c...

Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe examines the important roles of women who campaigned with armies from 1500 to 1815. This included...

A comparative study of the colleges established by Irish, English and Scots Catholics across Europe through the early modern period. -- .

Thousands were executed for incompatible religious views in 16th-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comp...

The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part ...

This book examines how the reformers' conceptual and theological frameworks pertaining to the role of the arts influenced the rise of realistic the...

Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tas...

Reducere. Why do competent armies fail? - Why did the American-led coalition in Iraq fail to wage a classic counter-insurgency campaign for so long after the...

Delving behind the headlines of history, this book showcases twenty brave Americans who showed exceptional leadership in the Spanish-American War, ...