Amphibious warfare 1000-1700
Subtitle: commerce, state formation and European expansion
By: edited by Mark Charles Fissel and D.J.B. Trim.
Contributors: Fissel, Mark Charles.; Trim, D. J. B.
Series: History of warfare -- 34
Publisher: Brill; Extenza Turpin [distributor]
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Leiden; Biggleswade
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
Subjects: Amphibious warfare -- History.; Europe -- History, Military.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 454-456) and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Amphibious warfare, 1000-1700: concepts and contexts / D.J.B. Trim & Mark Charles Fissel; value: Amphibious operations from the Norman Conquest to the crusades of Saint Louis, c. 1050-c. 1250 / Matthew Bennett; value: Amphibious warfare in the Baltic: the Hansa, Holland and the Habsburgs (fourteenth-sixteenth centuries) / Louis Sicking; value: Portuguese amphibious warfare in the east in the sixteenth century (c. 1500-1520) / Malyn Newitt; value: Amphibious warfare in the Baltic, 1550-1700 / Jan Glete; value: The Siege of Malta (1565) and the Habsburg-Ottoman struggle for domination of the Mediterranean / John F. Guilmartin, Jr.; value: Amphibious operations and the Elizabethan assault on the Spanish Atlantic economy 1585-1598 / R.B. Wernham; value: English amphibious warfare, 1587-1656: galleons, galleys, longboats, and cots / Mark Charles Fissel; value: The King's two arms: French amphibious warfare in the Mediterranean under Louis XIV, 1664 to 1697 / Guy Rowlands; value: The blue-water dimension of King William's War: amphibious operations and allied strategy during the Nine Years' War, 1688-1697 / John M. Stapleton, Jr.; value: Medieval and early-modern inshore, estuarine, riverine and lacustrine warfare / D.J.B. Trim; value: Conclusions / D.J.B. Trim & Mark Charles Fissel.