Author: William J. Hambli
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: warfare, history, ancient, east
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2006-04-12
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415255899
ISBN-13: 9780415255899
The only book available that covers this subject, Warfare in the Ancient Near East is a groundbreaking and fascinating study of ancient near Eastern military history from the Neolithic era to the middle Bronze Ages. Drawing on an extensive range of textual, artistic and archaeological data, William J. Hamblin synthesizes current knowledge and offers a detailed analysis of the military technology, ideology and practices of Near Eastern warfare. Paying particular attention to the earliest known examples of holy war ideaology in Mesopotamia and Egypt, Hamblin focuses on: * recruitment and trainin
Author: John Childs
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: warfare, history, smithsonian, century, seventeenth
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 006089170X
ISBN-13: 9780060891701
During the 17th century, technological evolutions in fortifications and arms meant that wars grew longer, armies larger, and military formations more disciplined. Yet, militias remained primarily mercenary; although armaments developed from the pike to the socket bayonet and uniforms began to appear, professionalism remained low. From the multifaceted conflicts of the Thirty Years’ War to the campaigns of Louis XIV, a richly detailed picture emerges of military life and structure in the 1600s--its conflicts and conduct, the rise of a standing army, the difficulties posed by reliance on
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: warfare, history, smithsonian, century, eighteenth
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0060851236
ISBN-13: 9780060851231
Worldwide warfare might seem like a twentieth-century development, but the colonial empires of Europe fought wars around the globe in the eighteenth. With domains spreading to the Americas and across the Pacific Ocean to Asia, a great power such as France could find itself fighting simultaneously against England’s Hanoverian king in northern Germany, in the waters of the English Channel, and on the grounds of what became Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jeremy Black explains not just the wheres and whys of those wars, but also the hows. The Age of Enlightenment on the battlefield. Diversity of
Author: Susan Rose
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: warfare, history, naval, medieval
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-12-29
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 041523977X
ISBN-13: 9780415239776
How were medieval navies organized, and how did powerful rulers use them? Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500 provides a wealth of information about the strategy and tactics of these early fleets and the extent to which the possibilities of sea power were understood and exploited.This fascinating account brings vividly to life the dangers and difficulties of medieval seafaring. In particular, it reveals the exploits of the Italian city-states, England and France and examines how battles were fought from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. With accompanying maps and illustrations, this much-need
Author: Mark Charles Fissell
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: warfare, history, english
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-07-03
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415214815
ISBN-13: 9780415214810
English Warfare explores the English art of war from Henry VIII’s chivalric exuberance on the eve of the Battle of the Spurs 1513,to the shock of an ashen-faced Charles I surveying the carnage upon the field of Edgehill 1642. Did the soldier become more deadly in the era of the "military revolution?" Combat on the Scottish borders, expeditions to the Continent, and incursions into Ireland are in turn described graphically, largely from unpublished sources. Institutional and administrative analysis are punctuated by vignettes from Henry VIII’s campaigns into France, the exploits of
Author: Lawrence Sondhaus
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: warfare, history, naval
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-01-22
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415214785
ISBN-13: 9780415214780
From the era of Napoleon and Lord Nelson to the Anglo-German naval race before the First World War, naval warfare underwent a slow transition from the era of wooden sailing fleets to that of the modern steel navy. Naval Warfare 1815-1914 details the technological breakthroughs of steam power, armour, artillery and torpedoes that brought changes not only to warship design, but also to naval strategy and tactics.
Author: Bruce Ellema
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: warfare, history, chinese, modern
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2001-03-27
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0415214742
ISBN-13: 9780415214742
Why did the Chinese empire collapse and why did it take so long for a new government to reunite China? Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 seeks to answer these questions by exploring the most important domestic and international conflicts over the past two hundred years, from the last half of the Qing empire through to modern day China. This book reveals how most of China’s wars during this period were fought to preserve Chinese unity, and examines the cyclical pattern of imperial decline, domestic chaos and finally the creation of a new unifying dynasty. Exposing China as an imperialist
