1st Edition
The Twilight Of A Military Tradition Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800
By Gregory Hanlon
Copyright 1998
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2002. This work of military history integrates the Italian dimension into the wider political and military history of early modern Europe.
Knights and corsairs in the Mediterranean; Italy in the age of Hapsburg hegemony, 1560-1620; the Forty Years' War, 1618-1659; the Venetian epic, 1600-1718; the Spanish crisis and the rise of Austria, 1660-1710; profiles and careers' the piedmontese exception; the great powers and Italian demilitarization, 1700-1814; the military imagination.
Biography
Gregory Hanlon
'Both in providing accessible information and in offering a far more nuanced and unprejudiced view of the military activities of the Italian princes and their nobilities, Hanlons book is invaluable.' - D. Parrott, War in History