Ottoman Warfare 1500-1700

Name: Ottoman Warfare 1500-1700
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ISBN: 9780813526850

ISBN-10: 081352685X

ISBN-13: 9780813526850

Edition: 1999

Authors: Rhoads Murphey

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Ottoman Warfare is an impressive and original examination of the Ottoman military machine, detailing its success in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Focusing primarily on the evolution of the Ottoman military organization and its subsequent impact on Ottoman society in a period of change, the book redresses the historiographical imbalance in the existing literature, analyzing why the Ottomans were the focus of such intense military concern.Several books have been written on the fiscal, technological, tactical, and political dimensions of Ottoman military history; little has been attempted, however, to recreate or evoke the physical and psychological realities of war as experienced…

Book details

List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 2/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Rhoads Murphey is Reader in Ottoman Studies at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham. He is the author of numerous books on Ottoman Empire and Warfare.



List of illustrations


List of tables


Maps (1-5)


Preface: Scope and purpose of work


Acknowledgements



General political framework: the evolving context



Material constraints on Ottoman warfare: the immutable context



Military manpower and military spending: an attempt at realistic assessment



Troop movement and army transport



Provisioning the army



Ottoman methods of warfare: experience, competence and adherence to standard norms of contemporary military practice



Motivational and psychological aspects of Ottoman warfare



The aftereffects of Ottoman warfare: a review of the essential elements of Ottoman pragmatism in the military sphere



Conclusion - war and social transformation in the Ottoman empire


Appendices


Notes


Bibliography


Index