Empire and Military Revolution in Eastern Europe - Russia's Turkish Wars in the Eighteenth Century

Zusatztext Davies' book will be definitely of great interest to professional historians and students of military history and everyone who seeks deeper insights into Russia's Turkish wars. Informationen zum Autor Brian Davies is Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio! USA. Zusammenfassung Explores Russia's military and demographic competition with the Crimean Khanate and Ottoman Empire for control of the Black Sea steppe in the eighteenth century. This book examines how these conflicts characterized the course of Russian military development in response to Ottoman and Crimean Tatar threats. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Maps 1. The Trampled Lands 2. The Northern War and the New Russian Army 3. The Prut and Caspian Wars 4. War! Peace and Taxes! 1710-1735 5. The Russo-Turkish War! 1736-1739 6. Empire and Military Revolution! 1740-1774 Notes BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Brian Davies
• Assisted by: Jeremy Black (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2011
• EAN: 9781441170040
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-7004-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Continuum Studies in Military; Bloomsbury Studies in Military History; Continuum Studies in Military
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History