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From Spear to Flintlock - A History of War in Europe and the Middle East to the French Revolution (Hardcover): Frederic J.... From Spear to Flintlock - A History of War in Europe and the Middle East to the French Revolution (Hardcover)
Frederic J. Baumgartner
R2,811 Discovery Miles 28 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a fast-paced survey of the history of war in the Eurasian world from classical Greece to the French Revolution. Defining the period as the era of pre-industrial warfare, Frederic Baumgartner describes the broad differences, as well as the similarities, in the armies through those 2,000 years. He suggests that the Greek hoplite, the Roman legionary, the nomadic horse archer, the medieval knight, the Swiss pikeman, the early musketeer, and other military types have more in common with each other than with the soldier of the twentieth century. Although he concentrates on the wars and military systems of western Europe, Baumgartner devotes considerable attention to those societies that had a significant impact on European warfare. The Byzantine Empire, the Arabs, the Central Asian nomads, and the Ottoman Turks are examined as are the countries of eastern Europe. Naval history is well integrated into the work with special attention given to galley warfare in the Mediterranean between Christendom and Islam. Fortification and siegecraft are also discussed extensively.

Baumgartner has produced a significant original synthesis of scholarship on military history. It is not a series of biographies of great commanders or studies of the tactics of great battles, although a number of battles are examined in some detail to illustrate the tactics, fighting style, or weapons system typical of a particular era. Baumgartner is more concerned with illuminating the close relationship between social and economic change and military change throughout history. This work will be useful as a textbook for a college-level course in military history or as supplemental reading for classes in Western civilization.

Longing For The End - A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization (Paperback, Revised): Frederic J. Baumgartner Longing For The End - A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization (Paperback, Revised)
Frederic J. Baumgartner
R2,124 Discovery Miles 21 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jonestown, Waco, and Heaven's Gate resonate in the contemporary mind in the same way that Masada or Mount Tabor resonated in the minds of others long past. The members of these movements believed that the end of the world was at hand and that they had to act through violence or suicide to ensure its occurrence. Frederic Baumgartner explores the long, often violent, history of millennialism as it has affected Western civilization. From ancient Zoroastrians to Concerned Christians of 1998, a belief in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the new age has motivated hundreds of sects and cults, some of which have burned out in an orgy of violence to become a permanent part of Western history.

France in the Sixteenth Century (Paperback, 1995 ed.): Frederic J. Baumgartner France in the Sixteenth Century (Paperback, 1995 ed.)
Frederic J. Baumgartner
R1,255 Discovery Miles 12 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Both the golden age of the Renaissance state and the catastrophic era of the Wars of Religion, this fascinating period in French history has been oddly neglected by English-language historians. Professor Baumgartner's book fills a major gap in the textbook market: an accessible, fully current account which covers the principal political, economic and cultural themes from Francois I's successful centralization of the state, through France's near prostration under the Catholic-Huguenot civil war, and ending with the accession of Henri IV.

Anne and Louis - Rulers and Lovers (Paperback): Rozsa Gaston Anne and Louis - Rulers and Lovers (Paperback)
Rozsa Gaston; Foreword by Frederic J. Baumgartner
R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Louis XII (Paperback, 1996 ed.): Frederic J. Baumgartner Louis XII (Paperback, 1996 ed.)
Frederic J. Baumgartner
R1,394 Discovery Miles 13 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The reign of Louis XII (1498-1515) has been much neglected by historians. Falling between the conventional end of the French middle ages and Francis I's notional ushering in of Renaissance France, Louis' rule 'belongs' neither to medievalists nor to historians of the the early modern period. While not in the front rank of French monarchs, Louis XII, 'The Father of the People', remains an interesting and appealing figure, and the events of his reign (the Valois-Habsburg wars in Italy, Louis' bitter disputes with Pope Julius II, the complications of his marriages) had a profound effect on the future of the French state. France's church, legal system, and cultural life (many of the artistic achievements associated with the reign of Francis I in fact occurred under Louis) were all strongly influenced by the king, and this readable and lucid account of his rule offers a wealth of interesting information.

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