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

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Routledge, 2008 M02 22 - 384 pages
First published in 2002. This work of military history integrates the Italian dimension into the wider political and military history of early modern Europe.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Knights and corsairs in the Mediterranean
9
2 Italy in the age of Habsburg hegemony 15601620
47
3 The Forty Years War 161859
93
4 The Venetian epic 16001718
143
5 The Spanish crisis and the rise of Austria 16601710
179
6 Profiles and careers
221
7 The Piedmontese exception
275
8 The Great Powers and Italian demilitarization 17001814
303
9 The military imagination
329
Index
359
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Gregory Hanlon

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