ABSTRACT
The early modern period saw gunpowder weapons reach maturity and become a central feature of European warfare, on land and at sea. This exciting collection of essays brings together a distinguished and varied selection of modern scholarship on the transformation of war”often described as a ’military revolution’”during the period between 1450 and 1660.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 10|24 pages
Middle-Class Society and the Rise of Military Professionalism
The Dutch Army 1589-1609
