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The World of the Siege : Representations of Early Modern Positional Warfare.
The World of the Siege examines relations between the conduct and representations of early modern sieges. The volume offers case studies from various regions in Europe (England, France, the Low Countries, Germany, the Balkans) and throughout the world (the Chinese, Ottoman and Mughal Empires), from...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2019.
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| Series: | History of Warfare Ser.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Chapter 1
- Introduction
- Anke Fischer-Kattner
- Part 1
- Participants and Audiences
- Chapter 2
- The World of the Siege in New Perspective: the Populace during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- Sigrun Haude
- Chapter 3
- Colchester's Plight in European Perspective: Printed Representations of Seventeenth-Century Siege Warfare
- Anke Fischer-Kattner
- Chapter 4
- More Honored in the Breach? Representations of Honor in Louisquatorzian Sieges
- Jamel Ostwald
- Part 2
- Imperial Boundaries
- Chapter 5
- Straddling Empires: Revolt and Religion in Early Modern Dalmatia
- Eric R. Dursteler
- Chapter 6
- The 1689 Siege of Bombay in Global Historical Perspective
- Philip J. Stern
- Chapter 7
- Narratives of Akbar's Sieges and the Construction of Mughal Universal Sovereignty
- Pratyay Nath
- Chapter 8
- Siege Warfare in Verse and Prose: the Ottoman Conquest of Kamianets-Podilsky (Kamanice), 1672
- Kahraman Şakul
- Part 3
- Definitions
- Chapter 9
- Siegecraft in Ming and Qing China
- Tonio Andrade
- Chapter 10
- "The Enterprises and Surprises That They Would Like to Perform": Fear, Urban Identities, and Siege Culture during the French Wars of Religion
- Brian Sandberg
- Chapter 11
- Summary: Under Siege? Defining Siege Warfare in World History
- Peter H. Wilson
- Index.