[PDF.82yl] European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution

European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution

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 | #796168 in Books |  Boydell Press |  2012-05-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.52 x.80 x6.92l,1.36 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An excellent primer in the early modern european world of edged arms and armour|By David Kelly|With so much emphasis in Western Martial arts focused on medieval weapons and systems of defense this book had fallen off my radar. Thanks to someone elses endorsement I got it today. Oakshott does a particualrly fine job of given context and continuity to the 15-17th Century systems| |An engaging book of great use to scholars and students. (It) demystifies the material culture of an important aspect of the military and tournament activities of early modern Europe. .. If one had room for only a single book on the subject, this volume should

Both a work of scholarship, and a treasury of information, for anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution. The author chooses as his starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in 1494, which sowed the dragon's teeth of all the successive European wars; the French invasion was to accelerate the trend towards new armaments and new methods of warfare. The author describes the development of th...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution   |  Ewart Oakeshott. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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