Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700 : : Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion / / edited by Trim, Mark C. Fissel.

• Superior document: History of Warfare ; 34
• TeilnehmendeR: Fissel, Mark C.,; Trim,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: History of Warfare ; 34.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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, u...

Table of Contents

• 1 Amphibious warfare, 1000-1700 : concepts and contexts / D. J. B. Trim, Mark Charles Fissel
• 2 Amphibious operations from the Norman conquest to the crusades of Saint Louis, c. 1500-c. 1250 / Matthew Bennett
• 3 Amphibious warfare in the Baltic : the Hansa, Holland and the Habsburgs (fourteenth-sixteenth centuries) / Louis Sicking
• 4 Portuguese amphibious warfare in the east in the sixteenth century (c. 1500-1520) / Malyn Newitt
• 5 Amphibious warfare in the Baltic, 1550-1700 / Jan Glete
• 6 The siege of Malta (1565) and the Habsburg-Ottoman struggle for domination of the mediterranean / John F. Guilmartin, Jr.
• 7 Amphibious operations and the Elizabethan assault on the Spanish Atlantic economy 1585-1598 / R. B. Wernham
• 8 English amphibious warfare, 1587-1656 : galleons, galleys, longboats, and cots / Mark Charles Fissel
• 9 The king's two arms : French amphibious warfare in the mediterranean under Louis XIV, 1664 to 1697 / Guy Rowlands
• 10 The blue-water dimension of King William's war : amphibious operations and allied strategy during the nine years' war, 1688-1697 / John M. Stepleton, Jr.
• 11 Medieval and early-modern inshore, estuarine, riverine and lacustrine warfare / D. J. B. Trim
• Conclusion / D. J. B. Trim, Mark Charles Fissel.