The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
How Europeans Checked the Gunpowder Revolution These drawings by a French architect of the nineteenth century, E. Viollet-le-Duc ...
developed trace italienne, showing the way in which ditch and walls were combined to protect a city from gunfire. Note that the ...
94 Chapter Three utilize the firepower that muskets and arquebuses began to exhibit in battle. The French failure in Italy, in f ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 95 arms races, when from time to time a new technology seemed capable of conferring sig ...
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98 Chapter Three great effort to cast guns on the spot, as Babur (1526–30) did, or else to haul them overland, as his grandson A ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 99 conquerors. Only Japan remained ethnically homogeneous. Hence it is not surprising t ...
100 Chapter Three sailing ships of the sort already in use in Atlantic waters could readily be converted into floating gun platf ...
The Business of War in Europe. 1000–1600 101 the amazingly rapid expansion of European dominion over American (beginning 1492) a ...
(^102) Chapter Three manifest in the first decades of the seventeenth century. In effect, the roar of Dutch and English naval gu ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 103 Even parsimonious governments like those of Manuel of Portugal (1495–1521) and Eliz ...
104 Chapter Three responded sensitively to new economic opportunities. Each voyage was a new proposition, requiring new decision ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 105 units for distinct enterprises. As a result, financial limits were diffuse and acte ...
(^106) Chapter Three But such measures might severely diminish the taxpaying capacity of the population, as the wars in the Low ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000—1600 107 Thus financial limits hampered early modern European govern ments and sporadically ...
108 Chapter Three and became firmly institutionalized among the Spanish armies that fought in the Dutch wars (1567–1609). Sixtee ...
The Business of War in Europe. 1000–1600 109 erable part, an example of pay-off resulting from collision between superior armed ...
110 Chapter Three Philip II did not make such heroic expenditures in vain. The number of soldiers at his command in the 1550s, w ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 111 increases were practically impossible. Indeed, existing burdens pro voked economic ...
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