The First World Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Portugal, War and Military Revolution
Redaktion: Carvalhal, Hélder; Lee de Jesus, Roger; Murteira, André

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, America, and Asia from the perspective of the Military Revolution historiographical debate. It is essential reading for military history, military architecture, global history, Asian history and the history of Iberian empires.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000372939
• Artikelnr.: 61178278

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Fortifications and Military Revolution 1. Negotiating
Early-Modernity in Azemmour, Morocco: Military Architecture in Transition
2. Early Modern Fortification: The Portuguese Experience and Engineer
Education 3. Military Engineers, the Military Revolution, and the Defence
of Portugal, 1640-1668 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 5. Was there an Early Modern Military Revolution
in Mainland Portugal? 6. "Small Government or Big Government"? Assessing
State Expansion in the War for Colonial Brazil Part 3: Tradition and
Innovation in Warfare 7. Transformation of Military Technology in Portugal:
The Impact of the Iberian Union on Artillery 8. Portuguese Military
Expeditions to Southeast Asia, 1597-1606 9. Reassessing Portuguese Military
Superiority in Asia in the Sixteenth Century - the Case of Land Warfare
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? 11. Suppliers,
Knowledge Brokers and Brothers-in-arms. Portuguese Aspects of Military
Innovation in Makassar 12. Military Innovation and Intrastate Warfare:
Portuguese Artillery and Sieges During the Woukou Raids of the
Mid-Sixteenth Century 13. The Military Revolution in Global History. East
Asian Perspectives Bibliography