Contents
List of maps, charts, and table
List of images
Preface
1: Renaissance innovations
a: The logic of conquest
b: The advent of gunpowder warfare
c: Constant war spurs financial innovation
2: Clash of civilizations 1550–1610
a: Ottoman threat from Eastern Europe
b: Mediterranean menace
c: Crusade in Flanders 1568–1609
3: Modern fortification and its impact
a: Cannon versus medieval walls
b: Advent of the bastioned trace
c: Italian engineers and their offspring in Northern and Central Europe
d: modern militias
4: French wars of religion 1561–1629
a: The French reformation
b: A godly insurgency 1560–1572
c: War of the league 1588–1598
d: End of the Protestant menace
5: Europe’s first great war 1618–1659
a: German civil war 1618–1648
b: The eighty years’ war round two
c: Franco-Spanish war 1635–1659
d: British civil war 1639–1653
6: The age of military entrepreneurs
a: Where soldiers came from
b: Contracting out war
c: Decline of entrepreneurial scope
d: Privateer navies in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean
7: The advent of standing armies and navies
a: Birth of a giant: the French army
b: Competing armies
c: Era of standing navies
8: Ottoman wars in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
a: End of the classical era after 1610
b: Venetian epic in the Mediterranean 1638–1718
c: New Hungary wars
9: The wars against French ascendancy 1667–1714
a: French potential unleashed
b: French defence by aggression 1680–1697
c: The threat of Bourbon world hegemony
10: The classical campaign
a: Winter preparations
b: Small war and foraging
c: War of manoeuver
d: Winding down the campaign
11: The classical siege in the age of Vauban
a: Scaling up the bastioned fortress
b: The labour of besiegers
c: Labours of the besieged
12: The classical battle
a: Offering battle
b: Cavalry
c: Infantry in battle
d: Aftermath of carnage
13: War finance in the classical age 1689–1720
a: Paying taxes in the age of absolutism
b: War and public debt
c: Conclusion: melting the debt
14: Conclusion: eighteenth-century continuity
a: Technological stasis
b: Overturning Utrecht
c: The Habsburg succession in Germany
Glossary
References
Index
Biography
Gregory Hanlon is a French-trained behavioural historian. His books include The Hero of Italy (2014), Italy 1636: Cemetery of Armies (2016), and Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian aristocrats and European conflicts 1560–1800 (1998), winner of the Marraro Prize for Italian history.
