Plotting power : strategy in the eighteenth century /

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"Military strategy takes place as much on broad national and international stages as on battlefields. In a brilliant reimagining of the impetus and scope of eighteenth-century warfare, historian Jeremy Black takes us far and wide, from the battlefields and global maneuvers in North America and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Black, Jeremy, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
1700-1799
Military history, Modern > 18th century.
Strategy.
International relations > History > 18th century.
World politics > 18th century.
Histoire militaire > 18e siècle.
Stratégie.
Politique mondiale > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Strategy.
International relations
Military history, Modern
Strategy
World politics
STRATEGY.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The struggle for power
  • The reach for world empire: Britain, 1700-83
  • The strategy of the Ancien regime: France 1700-89
  • The flow of ideas
  • The strategy of continental empires
  • The strategy of the "barbarians"
  • The rise of Republican strategies, 1775-1800
  • Imperial imaginings, 1783-1800
  • Conclusions
  • Postscript: Strategy and military history.

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