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The Military Organisation of a Renaissance State: Venice c. 1400 to 1617

By M. E. Mallett , J. R. Hale

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780521032476, 0521248426, 9780511562686, 0521032474, 0511562683, 9780521248426
LCC
UA740
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4168280 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
Pages
544\541
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book describes the role and organization of the land forces of a renaissance state over a long period. It thus provides a model against which the military development of other countries can be measured in terms of the composition, control and cost of armies. Above all, it redresses the imbalance whereby only the naval forces of Venice have been studied seriously. It is thus an essential contribution to an understanding of the extension and maintenance of an empire by land and sea, and of the strength in troops and fortifications that preserved Venice as the one truly independent state in sixteenth-century Italy. It also adds significantly to an understanding of the relationship between Venice and the republic's subject territories.

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