Beyond the Military Revolution - War in the Seventeenth Century World

The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of ''crisis'' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history.By placing 17th century warfare in a global context, Black challenges conventional chronologies and permits a reappraisal of the debate over what has been seen as the Military Revolution of the early-modern period. The book discusses war with regard to strategic cultures, assesses military capability in terms of tasks and challenges faced and attaches styles of warfare to their social and political contexts. Genuinely global in range, this up-to-date and wide-ranging account provides fresh historiographical insights into this crucial period in world history.>

About the author

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Black, Professor Jeremy Black
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2011
• EAN: 9780230251564
• ISBN: 978-0-230-25156-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / World, world history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, General and world history, Warfare and defence, World History, Global and Transnational History