The Twilight Of A Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800Routledge, 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. |
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... Levant, andonly passing familiarity with prominent Italian generals serving Spain,France and theEmpire. Here was much of European history witnessedand acted out by agreat gallery of heroes and rogues, whose number taperedoff ...
... Levant, andonly passing familiarity with prominent Italian generals serving Spain,France and theEmpire. Here was much of European history witnessedand acted out by agreat gallery of heroes and rogues, whose number taperedoff ...
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... Levant and far-off Brazil. Reviving the glory of forgotten military heroes became apropaganda vectorfor theregime in the 1920sand 1930s. Onetitle, Condottieri italiani in Germania (published in 1941!) imparts a good impression of ...
... Levant and far-off Brazil. Reviving the glory of forgotten military heroes became apropaganda vectorfor theregime in the 1920sand 1930s. Onetitle, Condottieri italiani in Germania (published in 1941!) imparts a good impression of ...
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... Levant was preferableto an exhausting war for the sole advantage ofthe kingof Spain. The peacetheymade withthe sultan in 1574 triggered a gradual demobilization ofthese forces. There were still 5,000 troops on Cretein 1575 and 3,000in ...
... Levant was preferableto an exhausting war for the sole advantage ofthe kingof Spain. The peacetheymade withthe sultan in 1574 triggered a gradual demobilization ofthese forces. There were still 5,000 troops on Cretein 1575 and 3,000in ...
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Contents
The Forty Years War 1618c59 | |
The Venetian epic 1600c1718 | |
The Spanish | |
Austrian horizons expanding 6Profiles and careers | |
The Piedmontese exception The developmentof the Piedmontese military state | |
TheGreat Powers andItalian demilitarization 1700c1814 | |
Themilitary imagination | |
Index | |
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