Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700: Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20594-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

This volume reconceptualizes amphibious warfare and also fills an important gap in its historiography, examining how it was conceived, practised and employed, from the Crusades, through the first wave of European exploration and colonization, the Price Revolution and the European wars of religion, up to the early Industrial Revolution and the beginnings of a new wave of imperialism. Essays examine issues related to strategy, operational art, tactics, logistics and military technology, but also consider commerce and culture. They reveal that amphibious warfare was often waged for economic reasons and was the quintessential warfare of European imperialism, for sea power was required to deliver and sustain land power. The volume is lavishly illustrated with 30 plates and twelve maps.
Contributors: Matthew Bennett; Louis Sicking; Malyn Newitt; Jan Glete; John F. Guilmartin; R. B. Wernham; Mark Charles Fissel; Guy Rowlands; John Stapleton; David J.B. Trim.

Zielgruppe

Academics and students working on medieval and early-modern Europe, world history, and strategic studies; all those interested in military history; historical geographers; military and naval professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trim, David J. B.

Fissel, Mark C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Amphibious warfare, 1000-1700: concepts and contexts / D. J. B. Trim, Mark Charles Fissel
2 Amphibious operations from the Norman conquest to the crusades of Saint Louis, c. 1500-c. 1250 / Matthew Bennett
3 Amphibious warfare in the Baltic: the Hansa, Holland and the Habsburgs (fourteenth-sixteenth centuries) / Louis Sicking
4 Portuguese amphibious warfare in the east in the sixteenth century (c. 1500-1520) / Malyn Newitt
5 Amphibious warfare in the Baltic, 1550-1700 / Jan Glete
6 The siege of Malta (1565) and the Habsburg-Ottoman struggle for domination of the mediterranean / John F. Guilmartin, Jr.
7 Amphibious operations and the Elizabethan assault on the Spanish Atlantic economy 1585-1598 / R. B. Wernham
8 English amphibious warfare, 1587-1656: galleons, galleys, longboats, and cots / Mark Charles Fissel
9 The king's two arms: French amphibious warfare in the mediterranean under Louis XIV, 1664 to 1697 / Guy Rowlands
10 The blue-water dimension of King William's war: amphibious operations and allied strategy during the nine years' war, 1688-1697 / John M. Stepleton, Jr.
11 Medieval and early-modern inshore, estuarine, riverine and lacustrine warfare / D. J. B. Trim

Conclusion / D. J. B. Trim, Mark Charles Fissel

Über Autor(innen)

D.J.B. Trim, Ph.D. (2003), University of London, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His publications include The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism (2003) and Cross, Crown and Community: Religion, Government and Culture in Early-Modern England, 1400-1800 (2004).

Mark Charles Fissel, Ph.D. (1983), University of California, Berkeley, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of English Warfare 1511-1642 (2001), The Bishops’ Wars: Charles I’s Campaigns against Scotland (1994), and War and Government in Britain 1598-1650 (1991).