The First World Empire: Portugal, War and Military Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780367365509 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 278 str.

Hélder Carvalhal; André Murteira; Roger Lee de Jesus

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This is a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, America, and Asia from the perspective of the Military Revolution historiographical debate. It is essential reading for military history, military architecture, global history, Asian history and the history of Iberian empires.

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Introduction  Part 1: Fortifications and Military Revolution  1. Negotiating Early-Modernity in Azemmour, Morocco: Military Architecture in Transition  2. Early Modern Fortification: The Portuguese Experience and Engineer Education  3. Military Engineers, the Military Revolution, and the Defence of Portugal, 1640-1668  Part 2: Size of the Armies and the Rise of the Fiscal State  4. Army Size, State Expenditure, and Warfare Culture in Sixteenth-Century Portugal  5. Was there an Early Modern Military Revolution in Mainland Portugal?  6. “Small Government or Big Government”? Assessing State Expansion in the War for Colonial Brazil  Part 3: Tradition and Innovation in Warfare  7. Transformation of Military Technology in Portugal: The Impact of the Iberian Union on Artillery  8. Portuguese Military Expeditions to Southeast Asia, 1597-1606  9. Reassessing Portuguese Military Superiority in Asia in the Sixteenth Century - the Case of Land Warfare  Part 4: Cultural Exchange and Circulation of Military Knowledge  10. The Portuguese Conquest of Angola in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1575-1641). A Military Revolution in West Central Africa?  11. Suppliers, Knowledge Brokers and Brothers-in-arms. Portuguese Aspects of Military Innovation in Makassar  12. Military Innovation and Intrastate Warfare: Portuguese Artillery and Sieges During the Woukou Raids of the Mid-Sixteenth Century  13. The Military Revolution in Global History. East Asian Perspectives  Bibliography