War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime 1618-1789
Author : Matthew Smith Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Matthew Smith Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Matthew Smith Anderson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773517592
A detailed account of how war and military culture affected pre-revolutionary Europe, and how the rise of nationalism and people's armies prepared the way for the dawning of a new age.
Author : Matthew Smith Anderson
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
This book provides a detailed account of how war and military culture affected pre-revolutionary Europe, and how the rise of nationalism and people's armies prepared the way for the dawning of a new age.
Author : Frank Tallett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134720203
War and Society in Early Modern Europe takes a fresh approach to military history. Rather than looking at tactics and strategy, it aims to set warfare in social and institutional contexts. Focusing on the early-modern period in western Europe, Frank Tallett gives an insight into the armies and shows how warfare had an impact on different social groups, as well as on the economy and on patterns of settlement.
Author : Stephen Conway
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2006-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0191531111
This book explores the impact of the wars of 1739-63 on Britain and Ireland. The period was dominated by armed struggle between Britain and the Bourbon powers, particularly France. These wars, especially the Seven Years War of 1756-63, saw a considerable mobilization of manpower, materiel and money. They had important affects on the British and Irish economies, on social divisions and the development of what we might term social policy, on popular and parliamentary politics, on religion, on national sentiment, and on the nature and scale of Britain's overseas possessions and attitudes to empire. To fight these wars, partnerships of various kinds were necessary. Partnership with European allies was recognized, at least by parts of the political nation, to be essential to the pursuit of victory. Partnership with the North American colonies was also seen as imperative to military success. Within Britain and Ireland, partnerships were no less important. The peoples of the different nations of the two islands were forced into partnership, or entered into it willingly, in order to fight the conflicts of the period and to resist Bourbon invasion threats. At the level of 'high' politics, the Seven Years War saw the forming of an informal partnership between Whigs and Tories in support of the Pitt-Newcastle government's prosecution of the war. The various Protestant denominations - established churches and Dissenters - were brought into a form of partnership based on Protestant solidarity in the face of the Catholic threat from France and Spain. And, perhaps above all, partnerships were forged between the British state and local and private interest in order to secure the necessary mobilization of men, resources, and money.
Author : John Rigby Hale
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773517653
"Covering the years between the end of the Hundred Years War and the beginning of the Thirty Years War, this book explains the part played by war in the lives of individuals in the early modern phase of European history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Miguel A. Centeno
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1509508228
War is a paradox. On the one hand, it destroys bodies and destroys communities. On the other hand, it is responsible for some of the strongest human bonds and has been the genesis of many of our most fundamental institutions. War and Society addresses these paradoxes while providing a sociological exploration of this enigmatic phenomenon which has played a central role in human history, wielded an incredible power over human lives, and commanded intellectual questioning for countless generations. The authors offer an analytical account of the origins of war, its historical development, and its consequences for individuals and societies, adopting a comparative approach throughout. It ends with an appraisal of the contemporary role of war, looking to the future of warfare and the fundamental changes in the nature of violent conflict which we are starting to witness. This short, readable and engaging book will be an ideal reading for upper-level students of political sociology, military sociology, and related subjects.
Author : Brian Bond
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773517639
As Europe descended into an era of war and 19th century hopes for peace faded, warfare was itself transformed by the growth of nationalism and technological advances. This study assesses the influence of war on European society between 1870 and 1970.
Author : Michael Hochedlinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 131788793X
The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria’s emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern state were just as important as its marriage policy in creating and holding together the Habsburg Monarchy. Drawing on an impressive up-to-date bibliography as well as on original archival research, this survey is the first to put Vienna’s military back at the centre stage of early modern Austrian history.
Author : Christian P. Potholm
Publisher : UPA
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0761867740
The third book in Professor Christian Potholm’s war trilogy (which includes Winning at War and War Wisdom), Understanding War provides a most workable bibliography dealing with the vast literature on war and warfare. As such, it provides insights into over 3000 works on this overwhelmingly extensive material. Understanding War is thus the most comprehensive annotated bibliography available today. Moreover, by dividing war material into eighteen overarching themes of analysis and fifty seminal topics, and focusing on these, Understanding War enables the reader to access and understand the broadest possible array of materials across both time and space, beginning with the earliest forms of warfare and concluding with the contemporary situation. Stimulating and thought-provoking, this volume is essential for an understanding of the breadth and depth of the vast scholarship dealing with war and warfare through human history and across cultures.