The Twilight Of A Military Tradition (Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800) ||

First published in 2002. This work of military history integrates the Italian dimension into the wider political and military history of early modern Europe. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures Preface Introduction 1 Knights and corsairs in the Mediterranean Originality of Mediterranean warfare The clash of great fleets Corsairs and maritime raiding 2 Italy in the age of Habsburg hegemony, 1560–1620 The Spanish system in Italy Wars of religion in Flanders and France Crusade in Hungary against Islam First challenge: the Venetian–Piedmontese alliance 3 The Forty Years War, 1618–59 The German civil war The resumption of the Netherlands War The war in Italy and its impact The Castro War, 1642–9 4 The Venetian epic, 1600–1718 The military potential of the aristocratic republic The Candia War, 1645–70 The Morea War, 1684–99 The end of empire 5 The Spanish crisis and the rise of Austria, 1660–1710 Spanish exhaustion after 1660 Austrian horizons expanding 6 Profiles and careers Lessons from the encyclopedias Military officers and military ‘enterprisers’ Honour and reputation The pursuit of noble causes 7 The Piedmontese exception The development of the Piedmontese military state The great wars and Piedmontese survival, 1690–1748 Inside the Piedmontese army 8 The Great Powers and Italian demilitarization, 1700–1814 The Italian military low-pressure zone Minor states rearm Parma Genoa Modena Tuscany The Neapolitan military experiment Bonaparte and the new Italian army 9 The military imagination Applied Ariosto Towards a disciplinary society? Conclusion: a project for research Index First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.