States, Arms, Armies, and Navies
Lecture Powerpoint
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Seminar Questions
- What was the relationship between states and violence in early modern Europe?
- What was the impact of war on civilians in early modern Europe?
- To what extent did the martial ethic change between 1500 and 1700?
Required Reading
All students should read
Wilson, Peter, 'Warfare in Europe', in Robert J. Antony, Stuart Carroll, and Caroline Dodds Pennock, eds, (Cambridge, 2020), pp. 174-93.
AND one of the following items:
- Carlton, Charles, (London, 1992) [Chapter 7: The Miserable Effects of War, pp. 150-179]
- Davis, Ann E., '', Journal of Economic Issues 47:1 (2014), 219-246.
- Hallenberg, Mats, '', Gender & History 25/1 (2013), 132鈥�49.
- Mortimer, Geoff, (Basingstoke, 2002), pp. 38-70.
- Tilly, Charles, 鈥�War-Making and State-Making as Organized CrimeLink opens in a new window鈥�, in Peter B. Evans et al., eds, Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 169-191
E-Resources
- '' Voices of the Powerless. BBC Radio programme broadcast 22 August 2002.
Further Reading
Amirell, S. E., et al. (eds), (Basingstoke, 2014)
Anglo, Sydney, The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe (New Haven, 2000)
Barbalet, Jack, '鈥�", Sociology (2020)
Black, Jeremy, War and the Cultural Turn (Cambridge, 2013)
Black, Jeremy, War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents 1450-1600 (New Haven, 2008)
Boes, Maria R., (Farnham, 2013)
Bourdieu, Pierre, On the State (Cambridge, 2015)
Carroll, Stuart, (Oxford, 2006)
Donagan, Barbara, 鈥樷��, American Historical Review 99/4 (1994), 1137-66
Donagan, Barbara, (Oxford, 2008)
von Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel, , trans. Michael Mitchell (Sawtry, 1999)
Glete, Jan, (London, 2002)
Hale, J.R., (London, 1985)
Hallenberg, Mats, '', Gender & History 25/1 (2013), 132鈥�49.
H盲rter, Karl, '', European Journal of Criminology 11/2 (2013), 142-68
Helfferich, Tryntje, ed. and trans., The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History (Indianapolis, 2009)
James, Alan, 'Rethinking the Peace of Westphalia: Toward a Theory of Early-Modern Warfare' in Jonathan Davies (ed.), (Farnham, 2013), pp. 107-126.
Kaeuper, Richard, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford, 1999)
Koskinen, Ulla, Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, c. 1500-1700 (Basingstoke, 2017)
Kunzle, David, From Criminal to Courtier: The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672 (Leiden, 2002)
Lane, F. C., '', Journal of Economic History 18 (1958), 401-17.
Lane, F. C., Profits from Power: Readings in Protection Rent and Violence-Controlling Enterprises (Albany, 1979)
Lawrence, D. R., The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England, 1603-1645 (Leiden, 2008)
Lewis, C.P., and A.T. Thacker, eds, '', in A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 part 1: The City of Chester: General History and Topography (London, 2003), pp. 115-125.
Lynn II, John A., Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2008)
Male拧evi膰, Sini拧a, The Sociology of War and Violence (Cambridge, 2010)
Manning, Roger B., Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms (Oxford, 2003)
Marklund, Andreas, 鈥�The Manly Sacrifice: Martial Manliness and Patriotic Martyrdom in Nordic PropagandaLink opens in a new window
during the Great Northern WarLink opens in a new window鈥�, Gender & History 25/1 (2013), 150鈥�69.
Mortimer, Geoff, ed. and trans., (Basingstoke, 2002)
Murphey, Rhoads, (London, 1999)
Redlich, Fritz, (Wiesbaden, 1956)
Rogers, Clifford, J., ed., (Boulder, CO, 1995)
脫 Siochr煤, Miche谩l, '', Past and Present 195 (2007), 55-86.
Parrott, David, (Cambridge, 2012)
Roberts, Penny, (Basingstoke, 2013)
Sandberg, Brian, (London, 2016)
Sandberg, Brian, Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Baltimore, 2010)
Steensgard, N., 'Violence and the Rise of Capitalism: F. C. Lane's Theory of Protection and Tribute', Review : Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center 5 (1981), 247-73
Tallett, Frank, (London, 1992)
Tallett, Frank, and D. J. B. Trim, eds, European Warfare 1350-1750 (Cambridge, 2010)
Thomson, Janice, E., (Princeton, N.J, 1994)
Tilly, Charles, Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D.990-1992, rev. ed. (Oxford, 1992)
Tlusty, B. Ann, (Basingstoke, 2011)
Ulbricht, O., 'The Experience of Violence during the Thirty Years War: A Look at the Civilian Victims', in J. Canning, H. Lehmann, and J. Winter, eds, Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-modern and Modern Times (Farnham, 2004), 97鈥�128.
Weber, Max, '', in Max Weber's Complete Writings on Academic and Political Vocations, ed. John Dreijmanis, trans. Gordon C. Wells (New York, 2008), pp. 126-166
Wilson, Peter H., ed. and trans., The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook (Houndmills, 2010)
Wolfthal, Diane, '
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Zmora, Hillary, (Cambridge, 1997)
