Matchlocks to Flintlocks: Warfare in Europe and Beyond, 1500-1700

"A big picture view of how changes in the way war was waged between 1500 and 1700 affected the world at large . . . an exemplary book." —War in History

In the early modern world three dominant cultures of war were shaped by a synergy of their internal and external interactions. One was Latin Christian western Europe. Another was Ottoman Islam. The third, no less vital for so often being overlooked, was east-central Europe: Poland/Lithuania, Livonia, Russia, the freebooting Cossacks, a volat...