Warfare and empires : contact and conflict between European and non-European military and maritime forces and cultures /

It is commonplace that warfare was integral to the European expansion, pitting the superiorities of the European against the inferiorities of the 'native'. The aim of this book is to look deeper, and to examine the technological, political and economic structures and capacities of the comp...

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Other Authors: Peers, Douglas M. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2022
Edition:First edition
Series:Expanding world ; v. 24
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Table of Contents:
  • Ideology and conflict : the wars of the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1606 / John F. Guilmartin, Jr.
  • The French king wakes up in Detroit : 'Pontiac's War' in rumour and history / Gregory Evans Dowd
  • Fortifications and the 'idea' of force in early English East India Company relations with India / I. Bruce Watson
  • Saint Barbara's Legion : Portuguese artillery in the struggle for Morocco, 1415-1578 / John Vogt
  • The art of war in Angola, 1575-1680 / John K. Thornton
  • Balance and military innovation in 17th-century Java / Merle Ricklefs
  • Notes on early European military influences in Japan, 1543-1853 / C.R. Boxer
  • Indigenous assistance in the establishment of Portuguese power in Asia in the sixteenth century / G.V. Scammell
  • Crisis and failure : war and revolt in the Ambon Islands, 1636-1637 / Gerrit J. Knaap
  • The company army and the rural society : the invalid Thanah Army 1780-1830 / Seema Alavi
  • Social structure of the Túpac Amaru Army in Cuzco 1780-1781 / Leon G. Campbell
  • Changing military technology among the Indians of southern New England, 1600-1677 / Patrick M. Malone
  • The import of firearms into West Africa 1750-1807 : a quantitative analysis / J.E. Inikori
  • Resources and techniques in the Second Maratha War / John Pemble
  • Wellington and the Marathas in 1803 / Randolf G.S. Cooper
  • Combating the invisible enemy : health and hopsital care in the Army of New Spain 1760-1810 / Christon I. Archer
  • Colonial experience and European military reform at the end of the eighteenth century / Peter Paret