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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... with theFrench invasion of 1494. 1 This book will therefore address a historical enigma. After situatingthe place of Italian military commanders, officers and ... to realize the fullextent of it as he strove to create a modern, Introduction.
... with theFrench invasion of 1494. 1 This book will therefore address a historical enigma. After situatingthe place of Italian military commanders, officers and ... to realize the fullextent of it as he strove to create a modern, Introduction.
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... and disciplined army from scratch. Over a century later, would-be Fascist warlordssought tocomplete thisprocess. Italy«s case stands in starkcontrast to thegeneral European experience ofthe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, that of the ...
... and disciplined army from scratch. Over a century later, would-be Fascist warlordssought tocomplete thisprocess. Italy«s case stands in starkcontrast to thegeneral European experience ofthe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, that of the ...
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... the north European model, Italianélites lost interestinmilitary affairs. While the decline of Italianmilitary activity is myprimary interest here, the chief difficulty is to demonstrate an absence. What followsis therefore a hypothesis in ...
... the north European model, Italianélites lost interestinmilitary affairs. While the decline of Italianmilitary activity is myprimary interest here, the chief difficulty is to demonstrate an absence. What followsis therefore a hypothesis in ...
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Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800 Gregory Hanlon. Thedisaster befalling the fleet at Djerba was only oneof a stringof reverses suffered by theCatholic states at the hands of the Moslems sincethe beginningof ...
Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800 Gregory Hanlon. Thedisaster befalling the fleet at Djerba was only oneof a stringof reverses suffered by theCatholic states at the hands of the Moslems sincethe beginningof ...
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Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800 Gregory Hanlon. The Turkish offensive against Maltain 1565 attempted to reassertMoslem ascendancy inthe central Mediterranean. Its capturewould remove a crucialbase of Catholic ...
Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800 Gregory Hanlon. The Turkish offensive against Maltain 1565 attempted to reassertMoslem ascendancy inthe central Mediterranean. Its capturewould remove a crucialbase of Catholic ...
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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