The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military
expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the …

Karl Friday, an internationally recognised authority on Japanese warriors, provides the first
comprehensive study of the topic to be published in English. This work incorporates nearly …

Modern scholars, fixated on the'winners' in England's sixteenth-and seventeenth-century
religious struggles, have too readily assumed the inevitability of Protestantism's historical …

This work offers the first full-length study of the only armed rebellion in Elizabethan England.
Addressing recent scholarship on the Reformation and popular politics, it highlights the …

Exploring the effects of war on state power in early modern Europe, this book asks if military
competition increased rulers' power over their subjects and forged more modern states, or if …

Bosworth stands alongside Naseby and Hastings as one of the three most iconic battles
ever fought on English soil. The action on 22 August 1485 brought to an end the dynastic …

Elizabethan and early Stuart England saw the prevailing medium for transmitting military
news shift from public ritual, through private letters, to public newspapers. This study is …

In The Dutch Wars of Independence, Marjolein't Hart assesses the success of the Dutch in
establishing their independence through their eighty years struggle with Spain-one of the …

Early modern printed books are copiously illustrated with charts, diagrams, and other kinds
of images that represent systems of thought and ways of doing things. This book shows how …

This book reintroduces readers to the lives and writings of the greatest military minds of the
modern era, writers whose ideas and teachings continue to shape the conduct of war in the …