Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- 1 Global migrations
- 2 Patterns of warfare, 1400–1800
- 3 The first global dialogues: inter-cultural relations, 1400–1800
- 4 Legal encounters and the origins of global law
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- Part Four Questions of Method
- Index
- References
2 - Patterns of warfare, 1400–1800
from Part One - Migrations and Encounters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- 1 Global migrations
- 2 Patterns of warfare, 1400–1800
- 3 The first global dialogues: inter-cultural relations, 1400–1800
- 4 Legal encounters and the origins of global law
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- Part Four Questions of Method
- Index
- References
Summary
The standard distinction between settled societies and nomadic or seminomadic peoples captures contrasts in the scale and organisation of warfare. Nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples, who generally relied on pastoral agriculture or slash-and-burn shifting cultivation, were less populous and their governmental structures were less developed. The timing and rate of change are also issues in assessing whether there was a Military Revolution in the early modern period. The standard account posits one period of revolution from 1560 to 1660, indecisiveness and stagnation, then a second period of revolution that began with the outbreak of the War of American Independence in 1775 and continued with the French Revolutionary Wars to 1815. The Ottoman army, and even more the navy, of 1600 were very different from those of 1450, such that there was a sustained transformation in Ottoman war-making. The political culture of the Ottoman court and public finances also failed to support the enhancement of Turkish military capability.
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