Full Description
First published in 2002. This work of military history integrates the Italian dimension into the wider political and military history of early modern Europe.
Contents
Knights and corsairs in the Mediterranean; Italy in the age of Hapsburg hegemony, 1560-1620; the Forty Years' War, 1618-1659; the Venetian epic, 1600-1718; the Spanish crisis and the rise of Austria, 1660-1710; profiles and careers' the piedmontese exception; the great powers and Italian demilitarization, 1700-1814; the military imagination.
