Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700Rutgers University Press, 1999 - 278 páginas Ottoman Warfare is an impressive and original examination of the Ottoman military machine, detailing its success in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Focusing primarily on the evolution of the Ottoman military organization and its subsequent impact on Ottoman society in a period of change, the book redresses the historiographical imbalance in the existing literature, analyzing why the Ottomans were the focus of such intense military concern.Several books have been written on the fiscal, technological, tactical, and political dimensions of Ottoman military history; little has been attempted, however, to recreate or evoke the physical and psychological realities of war as experienced by Ottoman soldiers. Rhoads Murphey seeks to rectify this imbalance, favoring operational matters and providing a detailed study of a number of campaigns: we are offered, for example, vivid descriptions of life in the trenches with the diggers at Baghdad in 1638, who dug a total of five miles at 50 yards a day. Murphey's analysis does not focus on the Ottoman's success or failure in particular campaigns per se; he focuses on understanding the actual process of how the Ottoman military machine worked.This long-awaited work will become the definitive study of Ottoman warfare in the early modern period, and will be invaluable to those studying the Ottoman Empire and early modern European history in general. |
Índice
Troop movement and army transport | 4 |
Provisioning the army | 85 |
experience | 105 |
Motivational and psychological aspects | 133 |
a review | 169 |
Conclusion war and social transformation | 185 |
Notes | 211 |
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Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire, 1500-1700 Jos J. L. Gommans Pré-visualização indisponível - 2002 |