European Warfare 1660-1815
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, 276, [2] pages. Maps. Table. Abbreviations. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Jeremy Black MBE (born 30 October 1955) is a British historian, writer, and former professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. Black is the author of over 180 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th-century British politics and international relations, and has been described by one commentator as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age". He has published on military and political history, including Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975 (2001) and The World in the Twentieth Century (2002). Black studied at Queens' College Cambridge, St. John's College Oxford, and Merton College Oxford before joining Durham University as a lecturer in 1980. There he earned his Ph.D. and subsequently a professorship in 1994. He was editor of Archives, journal of the British Records Association, from 1989 to 2005. He has served on the Council of the British Records Association (1989–2005); the Council of the Royal Historical Society (1993–1996 and 1997–2000); and the Council of the List and Index Society (from 1997). He has sat on the editorial boards of History Today, International History Review, Journal of Military History, Media History and the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution (now the RUSI Journal). In 2008, he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement as afforded by the Society for Military History. This is a history of warfare, wars and the armed forces of Europe from the military revolution of the mid-17th century to the Napoleonic wars. This book is intended for broad-based undergraduate courses on 18th century Europe/Britain and the Ancien Regime; 2nd and 3rd year thematic courses on warfare in the modern period, and students of war studies. In this incisive study, Jeremy Black presents a wide-ranging analysis of European land and naval warfare from the time of the military revolution of the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Focusing not only on warfare in Europe but also on the complex conflicts that involved European states outside Europe (such as the British victories over the French in North America and India), Black assesses the conduct, cost, and consequences of European wars for major and minor powers. The contents include: 1. European warfare and its global context -- 2. Weaponry and tactics -- 3. Decisiveness -- 4. Warfare 1660-1721 -- 5. Warfare 1721-63 -- 6. Warfare 1763-91 -- 7. Warfare in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age 1792-1815 -- 8. Social and political context -- 9. Conclusions. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Military History, Weaponry, Tactics, Revolution, Napoleonic, War of Independence, Artillery, Bayonet, Frederick the Great, Peter the Great, Prussia, Wellington, Amphibious Operations, Flintlock, Jacobites, Rossbach, Maurice de Saxe, Turenne
ISBN: 0300061706
[Book #88691]
Price: $60.00