Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700 ─ Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion

For the purposes of this volume, amphibious warfare is defined as the form of warfare in which land-based and waterborne forces cooperate against an enemy. According to Trim (U. of London, UK) and Fissel (U. of California at Berkeley, US), between 1000 and 1700 AD, "amphibious (or `combined' or `joint') operations were conducted with ever increasing frequency and sophistication--especially (though not only) by the nascent nation-states of Christendom." While the ten historical essays they present examining amphibious warfare within this temporal and geographic area are primarily military history, focusing on tactics, operational art, strategy, and logistics, as well as developments in military and naval institutions and technology; they also consider the influence of amphibious warfare on commercial development, state formation, and European expansion. This is a paperback reprint of a book first published in 2006. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

D.J.B. Trim, Ph.D. (2003), University of London, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His publications include The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism (2003) and Cross, Crown and Community: Religion, Government and Culture in Early-Modern England, 1400-1800 (2004).Mark Charles Fissel, Ph.D. (1983), University of California, Berkeley, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of English Warfare 1511-1642 (2001), The Bishops’ Wars: Charles I’s Campaigns against Scotland (1994), and War and Government in Britain 1598-1650 (1991).