| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; Introduction; 1 Knights and corsairs in the Mediterranean; Originality of Mediterranean warfare; The clash of great fleets; Corsairs and maritime raiding; 2 Italy in the age of Habsburg hegemony, 1560-1620; The Spanish system in Italy; Wars of religion in Flanders and France; Crusade in Hungary against Islam; First challenge: the Venetian-Piedmontese alliance; 3 The Forty Years War, 1618-59; The German civil war; The resumption of the Netherlands War; The war in Italy and its impact |
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The Castro War, 1642-94 The Venetian epic, 1600-1718; The military potential of the aristocratic republic; The Candia War, 1645-70; The Morea War, 1684-99; The end of empire; 5 The Spanish crisis and the rise of Austria, 1660-1710; Spanish exhaustion after 1660; Austrian horizons expanding; 6 Profiles and careers; Lessons from the encyclopedias; Military officers and military 'enterprisers'; Honour and reputation; The pursuit of noble causes; 7 The Piedmontese exception; The development of the Piedmontese military state; The great wars and Piedmontese survival, 1690-1748 |
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Inside the Piedmontese army8 The Great Powers and Italian demilitarization, 1700-1814; The Italian military low-pressure zone; Minor states rearm; Parma; Genoa; Modena; Tuscany; The Neapolitan military experiment; Bonaparte and the new Italian army; 9 The military imagination; Applied Ariosto; Towards a disciplinary society?; Conclusion: a project for research; Index |
| Summary |
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Aristocracy (Social class) -- Italy -- History
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Aristocracy (Social class)
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- History, Military -- 1559-1789.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97004929
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Italy -- History, Military -- 1789-1815.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97004930
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Europe -- History, Military -- 1492-1648.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97004941
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Europe -- History, Military -- 1648-1789.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97004939
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Europe -- History, Military -- 1789-1815.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97004936
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Europe
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Italy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Military history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203023174 |
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020302317X |
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9781857287042 |
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1857287045 |
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