The Twilight Of A Military Tradition : Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800

ISBN-13: 9781857287042 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 384 str.

Gregory Hanlon

Opis

This work of military history integrates the Italian dimension into the wider political and military history of early modern Europe.

Recenzje

'Both in providing accessible information and in offering a far more nuanced and unprejudiced view of the military activities of the Italian princes and their nobilities, Hanlons book is invaluable.' - D. Parrott, War in History

Spis treści

Knights and corsairs in the Mediterranean; Italy in the age of Hapsburg hegemony, 1560-1620; the Forty Years' War, 1618-1659; the Venetian epic, 1600-1718; the Spanish crisis and the rise of Austria, 1660-1710; profiles and careers' the piedmontese exception; the great powers and Italian demilitarization, 1700-1814; the military imagination.

O autorze

Gregory Hanlon