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HI3110: European Warfare 1618-1714: Theory and Practice
Semester 1 | Credits: 10
This is primarily a study of the tactics and technology of European warfare on land and sea during an epoch of religious wars, unprecedented diplomatic realignments, rising and failing states, a ‘general crisis’ and external Ottoman pressure. Through discussion, presentation and self-directed learning, with an emphasis on contemporary texts, the module will progress thematically through such themes as state policy and grand strategy, tactical changes as a response to gunpowder weaponry, the (in)decisiveness of battle, ‘heroism’ versus ‘technique’ in the Vaubanian siege, manoeuvre, logistics and ‘contributions’, the impact of war on civilians, moral contexts: the ‘laws of war’ and the ‘law of nations’, women in the world of camp and train, recruitment and promotion, officers and men, the intellectual inheritance of classical Greek and Rome.
(Language of instruction: English)
Learning Outcomes
- describe the main wars and campaigns of the period under review
- assess how the strategy and tactics of seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century warfare responded to, and in turn generated, technological change
- explain the relative indecisiveness of battle
- consider the logistic constraints on manoeuvre
- explain the overriding importance of siege warfare
Assessments
- Continuous Assessment (100%)
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- HELENA CONDON:
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- PÁDRAIG LENIHAN:
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Reading List
- "Warfare in the Seventeenth Century" by John Childs
ISBN: 006089170X.
Publisher: Collins - "The wars of Louis XIV, 1667-1714" by John A. Lynn
ISBN: 0582056292.
Publisher: London ; Longman, 1999. - "A military revolution?" by Jeremy Black
ISBN: 033351906X.
Publisher: Macmillan - "The art of warfare in the age of Marlborough" by David Chandler
ISBN: 1885119143.
Publisher: Sarpedon - "This Seat of Mars" by Charles Carlton
ISBN: 0300139136.
Publisher: Yale University Press - "Fire And Stone" by Christopher Duffy
ISBN: 0785821090.
Publisher: Book Sales - "War for the every day" by Erik A. Lund
ISBN: 0313310416.
Publisher: Greenwood Press - "Giant of the grand siecle" by John A. Lynn
ISBN: 0521572738.
Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 1997. - "Vauban Under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession" by Jamel Ostwald
ISBN: 9004154892.
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers - "The military revolution" by Geoffrey Parker
ISBN: 0521479584.
Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 1996. - "Cities at war in early modern Europe" by Martha Pollak
ISBN: 052111344X.
Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2010. - "War and society in Early-Modern Europe" by Frank Tallett
ISBN: 0415160731.
Publisher: London ; Routledge, 1992. - "The art of war" by Martin van Creveld
ISBN: 970060838539.
Publisher: Smithsonian Books/Collins
Chapters: 4 - "The Enemy at the Gate" by Andrew Wheatcroft
ISBN: 046502081X.
Publisher: Basic Books
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.