Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700: Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion (History of Warfare, 34)

Book info: Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700: Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion (History of Warfare, 34) (Hardcover, 500 pages) – Brill, 2005. Language: English.

This volume reconceptualizes amphibious warfare and also fills an important gap in its historiography, examining how it was conceived, practised and employed, from the Crusades, through the first wave of European exploration and colonization, the Price Revolution and the European wars of religion, up to the early Industrial Revolution and the beginnings of a new wave of imperialism. Essays examine issues related to strategy, operational art, tactics, logistics and military technology, but also consider commerce and culture. They reveal that amphibious warfare was often waged for economic reasons and was the quintessential warfare of European imperialism, for sea power was required to deliver and sustain land power. The volume is lavishly illustrated with 30 plates and twelve maps.Contributors: Matthew Bennett; Louis Sicking; Malyn Newitt; Jan Glete; John F. Guilmartin; R. B. Wernham; Mark Charles Fissel; Guy Rowlands; John Stapleton; David J.B. Trim. About the Author D.J.B. Trim, Ph.D. (2003), University of London, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His publications include The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism (2003) and Cross, Crown and Community: Religion, Government and Culture in Early-Modern England, 1400-1800 (2004).

Mark Charles Fissel, Ph.D. (1983), University of California, Berkeley, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of English Warfare 1511-1642 (2001), The Bishops' Wars: Charles I's Campaigns against Scotland 1638-1640 (1994), and War and Government in Britain 1598-1650 (1991). He co-edited Law and Authority in Early Modern England (Delaware 2007) with Buchanan Sharp, and is currently co-authoring a broader work on amphibious warfare for Naval Institute Press with David J. Ulbrich.