Bibliographic Essay

There is no single satisfactory overarching account of European warfare in this period, but Jeremy Black provides good treatments of sections of the time frame: J. Black, European Warfare 1494-1660 (London: Routledge, 2002), European Warfare 1660-1814 (London: University College London Press/Routledge, 1994).

The material and financial means to wage war are examined by R. Bonney (ed.), The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe c. 1200-1815 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999) and C. Storrs (ed.), The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), both of which offer good assessments of the fiscal-military state debate. Questions of manpower and organisation are well covered by D. Parrott, The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). This can be supplemented by Jan Glete's excellent study of Spain, Sweden and the Dutch Republic: War and the State in Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 2002). Thomas Ertman offers an interesting take on the interaction between military change and political development in Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), which also references much of the extensive literature on that topic. International aspects are covered from a variety of perspectives by D.

The best overviews of naval warfare are J. Glete, Warfare at Sea 1500-1650: Maritime Conflicts and the Transformation of Europe (London: Routledge, 2000) and R. Harding Seapower and Naval Warfare 1650-1830 (London: Routledge, 1999). There are many general books on tactics, most of which are of limited value, though B. Nosworthy, The Anatomy of Victory: Battle Tactics 1689-1763 (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1990) provides much useful detail. The conduct of war is also accessible through studies of individual major conflicts such as M. E. Mallett and C. Shaw, The Italian Wars 1494-1559 (London: Routledge, 2012) and P. H. Wilson, Europe's Tragedy: The Thirty Years War (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2009). Various wider dimensions are explored by K. Hagemann et al. (eds.), Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives 1775-1830 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); J. A. Lynn, Women, Armies and Warfare in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007); and H. V. Bowen, War and English Society 1688-1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). A more detailed guide to the literature is provided by P. H. Wilson, ‘British and American Perspectives on Early Modern Warfare', Militär und Gesellschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit 5 (2001), 108-18.

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