Gunpowder & galleys
Subtitle: changing technology & Mediterranean warfare at sea in the 16th century
By: John Francis Guilmartin, Jr
Edition: Rev. ed
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Annapolis, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Naval art and science -- History; Mediterranean Region -- History, Naval
Notes: First published in 1974 by Cambridge University Press

This rev. ed. first published in 2003 by Conway Maritime Press

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-342) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Jiddah, 1517; title: The Mahanians' fallacy; title: Prevesa, 1538; title: The Mediterranean system of warfare at sea: geographic origins and operational characteristics; title: William Towerson's fight off the Guinea coast, 1557; title: The Mediterranean system of naval warfare: physical, economic and social limitations; title: Djerba, 1560; title: The weapons of sixteenth-century warfare at sea; title: Malta, 1565; title: The galley; title: Lepanto, 1571; title: The decline of the Mediterranean system of warfare at sea: technological change, social and economic causes and effects; title: Appendix 1. The development and tactical employment of individual firearms in the sixteenth century; title: Appendix 2. The external and internal ballistics of sixteenth-century cannon; title: Appendix 3. The design and construction of bronze cannon in the sixteenth century; title: Appendix 4. Computation of the speed of sixteenth-century galleys under oars; title: Appendix 5. The oficiales, soldiers and oarsmen carried aboard sixteenth-century Spanish galleys; title: Appendix 6. The classification and arrangement of ordnance on sixteenth-century galleys