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Author: Geoffrey Parker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-10-14
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521543927
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Revised second edition of the classic study, looking at Habsburg Spain's handling of the Dutch Revolt.
Author: Fernando González de León
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9004170820
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Combining approaches and insights from cultural, social and military history this study traces the evolution and decline of the Spanish officer corps and general staff during the Eighty Years War in connection with contemporary trends such as modernization and aristocratization.
Author: Geoffrey Parker
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780521099073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new interpretation of Spanish failure to suppress the Dutch revolt which presents an unusually close view of imperialism in action. An original & highly detailed picture of war & military life in the 16th & 17th centuries emerges.
Author: Geoffrey Parker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-04
Total Pages: 605
ISBN-13: 1107181593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Author: John Matusiak
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2018-09-07
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0750989696
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'War,' wrote Cardinal Richelieu, 'is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men'. Yet the prelate's mournful observation scarcely begins to encapsulate the full complexity and unspeakable horror of the greatest man-made calamity to befall Europe before the twentieth century. Claiming far more lives proportionately than either the First or Second World Wars, it was a contest involving all the major powers of Europe, in which vast mercenary armies extracted an incalculable toll upon helpless civilian populations as their commanders and the men who equipped them frequently grew rich on the profits. Swedish troops alone are said to have destroyed some 2,000 German castles, 18,000 villages and 1,500 towns, while other vast armies in the pay of Spain, France, the Holy Roman Emperor and a host of pettier princelings brought death to as many as 8 million souls. Rarely has such a perplexing tale been more in need of a new account that is both compelling and informed, and no less comprehensible than comprehensive.
Author: Raymond Fagel
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 946270287X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Julián Romero, Sancho Dávila, Cristóbal de Mondragón, and Francisco de Valdés were prominent Spanish military commanders during the first decade of the Revolt in the Low Countries (1567–1577). Occupying key positions in this conflict, they featured as central characters in various war narratives and episodical descriptions of the events they were involved in, ranging from chronicles, poems, theatre plays, engravings, and songs to news pamphlets. To this day, they still figure as protagonists of historical novels: brave heroes in some, cruel oppressors in others. Yet personal, first-hand accounts also exist. Archival research into the letters written by these commanders now makes it possible to include their perspectives and the way they describe their own experiences. Looking through the eyes of four Spanish commanders, Protagonists of War provides the reader with an alternative reading of the Revolt, contrasting the subjective experiences of these protagonists with fictionalised perceptions.
Author: James B. Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-09-28
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521387248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A major new textbook examining the nature of the state and the monarchy in early modern France.
Author: Eduardo de Mesa
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1843839512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides a wealth of detail on how "the wild geese" - the Irish who refused to submit to the English - played a significant role in the armies of Spain. It is well-known that many Irishmen who refused to submit to the English in the reigns of Elizabeth and the early Stuart kings, including the famous earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell, went to fight for the king of Spain, but what they did when they joined the Spanish armies is much less well-known. This book provides a wealth of detail on the activities of the Irish in the Spanish armies in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It outlines who the Irish soldiers were, how they were recruited and the terms under which they served. It discusses their military roles both in the wars in Flanders between the Spanish and their former Dutch subjects, and, later, in the Hispanic peninsula, showing how the Irish were often employed as elite troops who made significant contributions to major military actions, such as the siege of Breda in 1624. It examines military tactics, explores the politics of the Spanish armies, showing how the Irish fitted in, and discusses how, when the rebellion of 1641 broke out in Ireland, many Irish soldiers returned to Ireland to resume the fight against the English. Eduardo de Mesa completed hisdoctorate at University College Dublin. He is the author of La pacificación de Flandes. Spínola y las campañas de Frisia (1604-1609) (2009), and Discurso Militar del Marqués de Aytona (2008), co-author of La Monarquía de Felipe III (2008), and author of numerous articles, chapters in edited collections, and encyclopedia entries.
