Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1450-1660Paul E. J. Hammer The early modern period saw gunpowder weapons reach maturity and become a central feature of European warfare, on land and at sea. This exciting collection of essays brings together a distinguished and varied selection of modern scholarship on the transformation of war"often described as a 'military revolution'"during the period between 1450 and 1660. |
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Geoffrey Parker 1976 The Military Revolution 15601660 a Myth? | 1 |
of the Reconquista Journal of Military History 57 pp 4370 81 | 43 |
Military Construction in Renaissance | 109 |
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