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Plotting Power : Strategy in the Eighteenth Century /

"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Black, Jeremy, 1955- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.