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Wars and Soldiers in the Early Reign of Louis XIV Volume 5 - The Portuguese Army 1659-1690 (Paperback)
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Wars and Soldiers in the Early Reign of Louis XIV Volume 5 - The Portuguese Army 1659-1690 (Paperback)
Series: Century of the Soldier
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It was a commonplace that Italy offers little of interest to
military historians after the full flower of the Renaissance, and
that it had been deservedly forgotten. Italian Risorgimento
desperately wanted to repudiate the values of the previous
centuries. In place of a politically fragmented and militarily weak
collection of small states, in the thrall of Counter-Reformation
Catholicism, the 19th century historians dreamed of a united,
secular, industrial and well armed country that could withstand
comparison to France, England and Germany. The lack of interest on
this period increased even more under the fascist regime, which
preferred to elude a period in which Italian states appeared as
political entities dominated by foreign interference, and focusing
on the unreal Imperial myth reworked from the vestiges of the
monuments of ancient Rome. However, in the 17th century Italy was
the third-largest country by population in Europe, after France and
Germany, passing into second position for a century after 1700.
Northern as well as southern Italy constituted a key place in the
strategic duel between Spain and France, and the Peninsula lied on
the front line in the struggle against the Ottoman Empire.
Moreover, Italian states constituted good examples of fairly
efficient governance machines, which developed many matters,
included the 'Military'. Some of these states experienced long
periods of wars, to the point that the claim regarding social
elites progressively demilitarized to an unequalled extent anywhere
else in Europe should be considered no longer valid.
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