Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500-1800This volume examines continuities and new developments in the conduct of warfare in early modern Eastern Europe from the early sixteenth century, when Ottoman imperial expansion reached the Danube and Crimea, to the late eighteenth century, when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned out of existence and Russia rolled back Ottoman power from Ukraine and Moldavia. Contributors include specialists in Russian, Polish, Ottoman, Habsburg, Cossack, and Crimean Tatar history. The essays engage military history understood in the broadest sense and treat such subjects as taxation, recruitment, the sociology and culture of officer corps, logistics, command-and-control, and ideology as well as technology and tactics. The volume aims at facilitating comparative study of Eastern European military development across Eastern Europe and its points of divergence from military practice in the West. Contributors are Virginia H. Aksan, Brian J. Boeck, Peter B. Brown, Brian Davies, Dariusz Kupisz, Erik Lund, Janet Martin, Oleg Nozdrin, Victor Ostapchuk, Geza Palffy and Carol Belkin Stevens. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
An Examination of Estate Incomes and Military Expenses in the Mid16th Century | 19 |
A Catalyst of Military Development in Central Europe | 35 |
The PolishLithuanian Army in the Reign of King Stefan Bathory 15761586 | 63 |
Guliaigorod Wagenburg and Tabor Tactics in 16th17th Century Muscovy and Eastern Europe | 93 |
Russia in the International Mercenary Market in the Early Seventeenth Century | 109 |
Logistics and the Early Modern Russian Army | 119 |
The View from Remmal Khojas History of Sahib Gerey Khan | 147 |
Military Realities and Literary Myth | 173 |
The Scientific Revolution and Generalship in the Habsburg Army 16861723 | 199 |
Command and Control in the SeventeenthCentury Russian Army | 249 |
Ottoman Military Power in the Eighteenth Century | 315 |
List of Contributors | 349 |
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