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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... empire 5 The Spanish crisis and the rise of Austria, 1660c1710 Spanish exhaustion after 1660 Austrian horizons expanding 6Profiles and careers Lessons from the encyclopedias Military officers and military aenterprisers« Honour and ...
... empire 5 The Spanish crisis and the rise of Austria, 1660c1710 Spanish exhaustion after 1660 Austrian horizons expanding 6Profiles and careers Lessons from the encyclopedias Military officers and military aenterprisers« Honour and ...
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... empire, circa 1620 Map 4.2 Planof Candia, 1669 (basedon Dapper) Map 4.3 The Aegean military theatre, 1645¥1718 Map 5.1 aFriends« oftheking ofSpain incentral and northern Italy, 1560¥1610 (Knights of Santiago, Alcantara, Calatrava and ...
... empire, circa 1620 Map 4.2 Planof Candia, 1669 (basedon Dapper) Map 4.3 The Aegean military theatre, 1645¥1718 Map 5.1 aFriends« oftheking ofSpain incentral and northern Italy, 1560¥1610 (Knights of Santiago, Alcantara, Calatrava and ...
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... Empire, the Barbarypirate coastfrom Tunisia and Tripolitania to present-day Algeria, andthe hostileGreek andAlbanian coast.Italy, rather than Iberia, wasthe Spanish bulwarkin the Mediterranean, thestaging area for thegreat fleets ...
... Empire, the Barbarypirate coastfrom Tunisia and Tripolitania to present-day Algeria, andthe hostileGreek andAlbanian coast.Italy, rather than Iberia, wasthe Spanish bulwarkin the Mediterranean, thestaging area for thegreat fleets ...
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... Empire on equal terms. Luckily forthem, Constantinople played into their handsafter the death ofSultan Suleiman in 1566.The Turkish fleet bared its teeth at Venice that year, perhaps becausethe newsultan, SelimII, contemplated an easy ...
... Empire on equal terms. Luckily forthem, Constantinople played into their handsafter the death ofSultan Suleiman in 1566.The Turkish fleet bared its teeth at Venice that year, perhaps becausethe newsultan, SelimII, contemplated an easy ...
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... empire, mostly inthe prosperous Terraferma and therest inthe Dalmatian and Greek dominions. The latter included Corfù andthe Ionian islands, Crete and Cyprus.Venice«s thin corridor along theeasternAdriatic shore wastenuously held ...
... empire, mostly inthe prosperous Terraferma and therest inthe Dalmatian and Greek dominions. The latter included Corfù andthe Ionian islands, Crete and Cyprus.Venice«s thin corridor along theeasternAdriatic shore wastenuously held ...
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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