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| Author | : Kaushik Roy |
| Publsiher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Firearms |
| ISBN | : 9781474210836 |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (18 downloads) |
| Author | : Kaushik Roy |
| Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2014-05-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1780938004 |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (4 downloads) |
A substantial amount of work has been carried out to explore the military systems of Western Europe during the early modern era, but the military trajectories of the Asian states have received relatively little attention. This study provides the first comparative study of the major Asian empires' military systems and explores the extent of the impact of West European military transition on the extra-European world. Kaushik Roy conducts a comparative analysis of the armies and navies of the large agrarian bureaucratic empires of Asia, focusing on the question of how far the Asian polities were able to integrate gunpowder weapons in their military systems. Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400-1750 offers important insights into the common patterns in war making across the region, and the impact of firearms and artillery.
| Author | : Moumita Chowdhury |
| Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2022-07-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000603970 |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (7 downloads) |
This book focuses on the relation between technology, warfare and state in South Asia in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. It explores how gunpowder and artillery played a pivotal role in the military ascendancy of the East India Company in India. The monograph argues that the contemporary Indian military landscape was extremely dynamic, with contemporary indigenous polities (Mysore, the Maratha Confederacy and the Khalsa Kingdom) attempting to transform their military systems by modelling their armies on European lines. It shows how the Company established an edge through an efficient bureaucracy and a standardised manufacturing system, while the Indian powers primarily focused on continuous innovation and failed to introduce standardisation of production. Drawing on archival records from India and the UK, this volume makes a significant intervention in our understanding of the rise of the British Empire in South Asia. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially military history, military and strategic studies and South Asian studies.
| Author | : Ferdinand Opll |
| Publsiher | : StudienVerlag |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2019-11-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3706560143 |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (43 downloads) |
Der Österreichische Arbeitskreis für Stadtgeschichtsforschung veranstaltete im September 2018 - orts- und zeitgleich mit dem EU-Gipfel in Salzburg - in Kooperation mit dem Salzburger Stadtarchiv, dem Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung und der Commission Internationale pour lʼHistoire des Villes eine Tagung zu den "Kulturellen Funktionen von Stadtraum im Wandel der Zeit". Die Tagung reihte sich in das vierjährige Arbeitsprogramm der Commission ein, welches soziale, politische, kulturelle und wirtschaftliche Funktionen von Stadtraum thematisiert. "Kultur" als schwer fass- und definierbare Größe der Stadtgeschichte wurde dabei im Gang durch die Zeit dargestellt: Mittelalterliche Festsäle und Turniere, "Sport" in Mittelalter und Neuzeit am Beispiel von Pferderennen und Ballhäusern, die im 19. Jahrhundert neuaufkommenden Grand Hotels in Salzburg, das Stadtmuseum als "Eco-Museum" oder die Festspielhäuser des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts als Orte der (auch städtischen) Selbstvergewisserung wurden zumeist in vergleichender Sicht vorgestellt, wobei die regionalen, sozialen und nationalen Differenzen zwischen den behandelten Gebieten deutlich hervortraten. Der vorliegende Band - zugleich auch eine Festgabe zum fünfzigjährigen Bestehen des Österreichischen Arbeitskreises (1969-2019) - legt diese Beiträge der Öffentlichkeit vor. Mit Beiträgen von Steinar Aas, Jutta Baumgartner, Cees de Bondt, Gerhard Fouquet, Jean-Luc Fray, Marie-Paule Jungblut, Edmund Kizik, Martin Knoll, Ferdinand Opll und Martin Scheutz.
| Author | : Paul Scannell |
| Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2014-12-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472566718 |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (18 downloads) |
In Conflict and Soldiers' Literature in Early Modern Europe, Paul Scannell analyses the late 16th-century and early 17th-century literature of warfare through the published works of English, Welsh and Scottish soldiers. The book explores the dramatic increase in printed material on many aspects of warfare; the diversity of authors, the adaptation of existing writing traditions and the growing public interest in military affairs. There is an extensive discussion on the categorisation of soldiers, which argues that soldiers' works are under-used evidence of the developing professionalism among military leaders at various levels. Through analysis of autobiographical material, the thought process behind an individual's engagement with an army is investigated, shedding light on the relevance of significant personal factors such as religious belief and the concept of loyalty. The narratives of soldiers reveal the finer details of their experience, an enquiry that greatly assists in understanding the formidable difficulties that were faced by individuals charged with both administering an army and confronting an enemy. This book provides a reassessment of early modern warfare by viewing it from the perspective of those who experienced it directly. Paul Scannell highlights how various types of soldier viewed their commitment to war, while also considering the impact of published early modern material on domestic military capability - the 'art of war'.
| Author | : Victoria Henshaw |
| Publsiher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2014-06-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472514890 |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (9 downloads) |
The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.
| Author | : Mark Charles Fissel |
| Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2022-12-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3110657597 |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (97 downloads) |
The Military Revolution and Revolutions in Military Affairs updates two central debates in military history--the one surrounding the concept of military revolution, and the one on military affairs--whilst advancing original research in both fields. Only a handful of publications consider the military revolution and the RMA in tandem. This book breaks new ground conceptually and appeals to an exceptionally large and diverse readership. Comparative revisionist studies of the military revolution and RMA better enable us to comprehend the historical continuum and reveal the new RMA for what it is. And for what it is shortly to become. This book presents original contributions within the "epicentre" of the military revolution debate, the 1500s, with an emphasis on gunpowder revolution (offensively and defensively). The connections with the Revolution in Military Affairs are then made explicit by scholars, a practitioner, and an analyst, with an emphasis on airborne lethal autonomous weapons systems. This is a chronologically broad and unique methodological approach to a historical debate that begs for clarification as we enter an era where killer robots will almost certainly take from humans their monopoly on violence.
| Author | : Kaushik Roy |
| Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2022-08-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000628752 |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (52 downloads) |
This book provides a historical study of the theory and praxis of modern insurgencies and counterinsurgencies (COIN). Modern Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies: A Global History shows that the insurgents can wage a variety of conflicts: at times conventional war which lies at the high end of their spectrum, and terrorism which is located at the lowest end of their scale. When insurgencies reach a certain critical threshold, the insurgents shift their strategy from guerrilla (irregular) war to conventional (regular) war, and at that point the level of conflict escalates to the level of civil war. When the insurgents face intense state repression, they revert to terrorist activities. When the insurgents wage guerrilla war, they can be called guerrillas. The variety of wars conducted by the insurgents is termed as unconventional war. This volume demonstrates that the insurgents in the modern world had been motivated by a trinity: greed, grievances and ideology. Kaushik Roy traces the origin of modern insurgencies and COIN from the sixteenth century by focusing on regions outside Western Eurasia. He also touches on the twin interrelated phenomena of modern insurgencies and COIN metastasising into something new at the beginning of the Information Revolution at the end of the twentieth century. This volume will be of interest to researchers and research students of history, British Empire, imperial studies, Asian studies, security studies, strategic studies, and war and conflict studies.
| Author | : Kaushik Roy |
| Publsiher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2020-11-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000210790 |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (9 downloads) |
Military Thought of Asia challenges the assertion that the generation of rational secular ideas about the conduct of warfare is the preserve of the West, by analysing the history of ideas of warfare in Asia from the ancient period to the present. The volume takes a transcontinental and comparative approach to provide a broad overview of the evolution of military thought in Asia. The military traditions and theories which have emerged in different parts of Eurasia throughout history are products of geopolitics and unique to the different regions. The book considers the systematic and tight representation of ideas by famous figures including Kautlya and Sun Tzu. At the same time, it also highlights publications on military affairs by small men like mid-ranking officers and scattered ideas regarding the origin, nature and societal impact of organised violence present in miscellaneous sources like coins, inscriptions, paintings and fictional literature. In so doing, the book fills a historiographical gap in scholarship on military thought, which marginalises Asia to the part of cameo, and historicises the evolution of theory and the praxis of warfare. The volume shows that the ‘East’ has a long unbroken tradition of conceptualising war and its place in society from the Classical Era to the Information Age. It is essential reading for those interested in the evolution of military thought throughout history, particularly in Asia.
| Author | : Kaushik Roy |
| Publsiher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2015-06-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317586913 |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (13 downloads) |
This book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of stateless Indian society? How far did technology determine the dynamics of warfare in India? Did warfare in this period have a particular Indian nature and was it ritualistic? The book considers land warfare including sieges, naval warfare, the impact of horses, elephants and gunpowder, and the differences made by the arrival of Muslim rulers and by the influx of other foreign influences and techniques. The book concludes by arguing that the presence of standing professional armies supported by centralised bureaucratic states have been underemphasised in the history of India.
| Author | : Philip T. Hoffman |
| Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2017-01-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0691175845 |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (45 downloads) |
The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if certain variables had been different, Europe would have been eclipsed, and another power could have become master of the world. Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development, military rivalry, and war. This resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize. Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.
| Author | : Cathal Nolan |
| Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 709 |
| Release | : 2017-01-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199910995 |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (95 downloads) |
History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outcome of the wars in which they were fought. Nor has the "genius" of the so-called Great Captains - from Alexander the Great to Frederick the Great and Napoleon - play a major role. Wars are decided in other ways. Cathal J. Nolan's The Allure of Battle systematically and engrossingly examines the great battles, tracing what he calls "short-war thinking," the hope that victory might be swift and wars brief. As he proves persuasively, however, such has almost never been the case. Even the major engagements have mainly contributed to victory or defeat by accelerating the erosion of the other side's defences. Massive conflicts, the so-called "people's wars," beginning with Napoleon and continuing until 1945, have consisted of and been determined by prolonged stalemate and attrition, industrial wars in which the determining factor has been not military but matériel. Nolan's masterful book places battles squarely and mercilessly within the context of the wider conflict in which they took place. In the process it help corrects a distorted view of battle's role in war, replacing popular images of the "battles of annihilation" with somber appreciation of the commitments and human sacrifices made throughout centuries of war particularly among the Great Powers. Accessible, provocative, exhaustive, and illuminating, The Allure of Battle will spark fresh debate about the history and conduct of warfare.
| Author | : Pratyay Nath |
| Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2019-06-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0199098239 |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (39 downloads) |
What can war tell us about empire? In Climate of Conquest, Pratyay Nath seeks to answer this question by focusing on the Mughals. He goes beyond the traditional way of studying war in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he unravels the deep connections that the processes of war-making shared with the society, culture, environment, and politics of early modern South Asia. Climate of Conquest closely studies the dynamics of the military campaigns that helped the Mughals conquer North India and project their power beyond it. The author argues that the diverse natural environment of South Asia deeply shaped Mughal military techniques and the course of imperial expansion. He also sheds light on the world of military logistics, labour, animals, and the organization of war; the process of the formation of imperial frontiers; and the empire’s legitimization of war and conquest. What emerges is a fresh interpretation of Mughal empire-building as a highly adaptive, flexible, and accommodative process.
| Author | : Hélder Carvalhal |
| Publsiher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2021-04-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000372820 |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (2 downloads) |
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution historiographical debate. The existence of a military revolution in the early modern period has been much debated in international historiography, and this volume fills a significant gap in its relation to the history of Portugal and its overseas empire. It examines different forms of military change in specifically Portuguese case studies but also adopts a global perspective through the analysis of different contexts and episodes in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Contributors explore whether there is evidence of what could be defined as aspects of a military revolution or whether other explanatory models are needed to account for different forms of military change. In this way, it offers the reader a variety of perspectives that contribute to the debate over the applicability of the military revolution concept to Portugal and its empire during the early modern period. Broken down into four thematic parts and broad in both chronological and geographical scope, the book deepens our understanding of the art of warfare in Portugal and its empire and demonstrates how the military revolution debate can be used to examine military change in a global perspective. This is an essential text for scholars and students of military history, military architecture, global history, Asian history, and the history of Iberian empires.
| Author | : |
| Publsiher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2019-06-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004395695 |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (95 downloads) |
The World of the Siege examines the conduct of early modern sieges (15th-18th centuries) in relation to the creation and interpretation of siege narratives. The volume provides insights into the convergences and divergences of diverse (military) cultures across Europe and Asia.
| Author | : Scott Gates |
| Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2014-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 147257219X |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (9 downloads) |
The Mughals, British and Soviets all failed to subjugate Afghanistan, failures which offer valuable lessons for today. Taking a long historical perspective from 1520 to 2012, this volume examines the Mughal, British, Soviet and NATO efforts in Afghanistan, drawing on new archives and a synthesis of previous counter-insurgency experiences. Special emphasis is given to ecology, terrain and logistics to explain sub-conventional operations and state-building in Afghanistan. War and State-Building in Modern Afghanistan provides an overall synthesis of British, Russian, American and NATO military activities in Afghanistan, which directly links past experiences to the current challenges. These timely essays are particularly relevant to contemporary debates about NATO's role in Afghanistan; do the war and state-building policies currently employed by NATO forces undercut or enhance a political solution? The essays in this volume introduce new historical perspectives on this debate, and will prove illuminating reading for students and scholars interested in military history, the history of warfare, international relations and comparative politics.
| Author | : George Yagi |
| Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2016-01-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1474229972 |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (72 downloads) |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST FIRST BOOK CATEGORY OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL 2016 At the end of 1758, Britons could proudly boast of the numerous victories which had been achieved against the forces of King Louis XV. Although the Seven Years' War, or French and Indian War, was far from over, 1758 marked a significant turning point. Uniquely, this book provides an insight into the initial stages of the Seven Years War, and explains why Britain failed, despite the many advantages which it enjoyed. George Yagi employs an immense amount of varied primary material in order to provide the most thorough analysis yet of British failure during the early stages of the Seven Years' War. In doing so, it aims to dispel commonly held misconceptions and prove that the reasons for failure are much more complicated than has been assumed.
