Titlebook: Early Modern Military History, 1450-1815; Geoff Mortimer Book 2004 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004 Anc

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,Sea Power: The Struggle for Dominance, 1650–1815,37) and the French . (1669) were self-conscious expressions of royal power. These warships were extremely expensive and complex, and the need for basic administrative systems to support large-scale state navies was recognized and, in some states, in place.

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Book 2004review 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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,Introduction: Was There a ‘Military Revolution’ in the Early Modern Period?,academic community for decades, and scholarly work on modern forces and warfare is also limited’ (Black, 2000, p. 1). He identifies two reasons: firstly an overt interest in war may be seen as lacking in political correctness and akin to militarism itself, and secondly some scholars view war as litt

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The Medieval Legacy,so in form. Conquering Naples in 1494, Charles VIII of France wielded forces forged in a dark time by his grandfather, and tempered and tried by the internal conquests of Normandy, Gascony, Brittany and Burgundy. When Gonzalo de Cordoba, ‘El Gran Capitán’, reached the peninsula to make the Spanish r

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