1st Edition
The First World Empire Portugal, War and Military Revolution
Introduction
Part 1: Fortifications and Military Revolution
1. Negotiating Early-Modernity in Azemmour, Morocco: Military Architecture in Transition
Ana Lopes and Jorge Correia
2. Early Modern Fortification: The Portuguese Experience and Engineer Education
Margarida Tavares da Conceição and Renata Araújo
3. Military Engineers, the Military Revolution, and the Defence of Portugal, 1640-1668
Lorraine White
Part 2: Size of the Armies and the Rise of the Fiscal State
4. Army Size, State Expenditure, and Warfare Culture in Sixteenth-Century Portugal
Hélder Carvalhal
5. Was there an Early Modern Military Revolution in Mainland Portugal?
Fernando Dores Costa
6. “Small Government or Big Government”? Assessing State Expansion in the War for Colonial Brazil
Miguel Dantas da Cruz
Part 3: Tradition and Innovation in Warfare
7. Transformation of Military Technology in Portugal: The Impact of the Iberian Union on Artillery
Brice Cossart
8. Portuguese Military Expeditions to Southeast Asia, 1597-1606
André Murteira
9. Reassessing Portuguese Military Superiority in Asia in the Sixteenth Century - the Case of Land Warfare
Roger Lee de Jesus
Part 4: Cultural Exchange and Circulation of Military Knowledge
10. The Portuguese Conquest of Angola in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1575-1641). A Military Revolution in West Central Africa?
Miguel Geraldes Rodrigues
11. Suppliers, Knowledge Brokers and Brothers-in-arms. Portuguese Aspects of Military Innovation in Makassar
Tristan Mostert
12. Military Innovation and Intrastate Warfare: Portuguese Artillery and Sieges During the Woukou Raids of the Mid-Sixteenth Century
Barend Noordam
13. The Military Revolution in Global History. East Asian Perspectives
Tonio Andrade
Bibliography
Biography
Hélder Carvalhal is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Culture and Societies (CIDEHUS), University of Évora. He is a PhD candidate in early modern history at the Inter-University Doctoral Programme in History (PIUDHist), between Évora and Lisbon. He is interested in global economic and social history since the 1500s. He has published in journals such as Gender & History and Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History.
André Murteira is a researcher at Centre for the Humanities – CHAM (FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa). His MA dissertation was the basis for his published book A Carreira da Índia e o Corso Neerlandês, 1595–1625 (2012). He has published in journals such as the Journal of Military History. He is interested in the history of Dutch-Iberian conflicts outside of Europe in the seventeenth century.
Roger Lee de Jesus is a researcher at Centre for the Humanities – CHAM (FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa). He is a PhD candidate at the University of Coimbra interested in the history of Portuguese presence in Asia, from political to military history, especially in the implementation of European institutions and warfare in the Portuguese Estado da Índia (sixteenth century).
"No single volume can of course cover all aspects of Portuguese military history in Europe and overseas, but this book makes a valuable contribution to the field. Especially for a non-Lusophone audience, this is a very good first start to examine the military revolution debate in relation to the Portuguese case."
Erik Odegard, Ler História
