The first world empire Portugal, war and military revolution
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution historiographical debate. The existence of a military revolution in the early modern period has been much d...
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London ; New York
Routledge, Taylor & Frrancis Group
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | Warfare and history
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution historiographical debate. The existence of a military revolution in the early modern period has been much debated in international historiography, and this volume fills a significant gap in its relation to the history of Portugal and its overseas empire. It examines different forms of military change in specifically Portuguese case studies but also adopts a global perspective through the analysis of different contexts and episodes in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Contributors explore whether there is evidence of what could be defined as aspects of a military revolution or whether other explanatory models are needed to account for different forms of military change. In this way, it offers the reader a variety of perspectives that contribute to the debate over the applicability of the military revolution concept to Portugal and its empire during the early modern period. Broken down into four thematic parts and broad in both chronological and geographical scope, the book deepens our understanding of the art of warfare in Portugal and its empire and demonstrates how the military revolution debate can be used to examine military change in a global perspective. This is an essential text for scholars and students of military history, military architecture, global history, Asian history, and the history of Iberian empires. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [239]-265 "The present volume was inspired by the international congress "The Military Revolution in Portugal and Its Empire (15th-18th Centuries)", organized and held by CIDEHUS, University of Évora (UID/HIS/00057/2019) during 29-30 May 2018 [...]." -- Acknowledgements |
| Beschreibung: | xxiii, 277 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne |
| ISBN: | 9780367365486 978-0-367-36548-6 9780367365509 978-0-367-36550-9 |