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Warfare in the Seventeenth Century.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
Warfare in the Seventeenth Century, by John Childs (London: Cassell, 2003; pp. 240. Pb. 9.99 [pounds sterling])
Readers anticipating that the present volume will offer another of John Childs's detailed and nuanced examinations of the relationship between war and early modern society may be disappointed. The present series of concise, lavishly illustrated volumes is explicitly focused upon the art of war, and aims primarily to provide a detailed account of successive European (including British) conflicts. Professor Childs's volume provides a few analytical sections on the social context of recruitment, the financing of war, the development of training and the …
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...Revolution; and on the volumes of a military historian of seventeenth-century Britain and Europe. The book is perhaps too long for its...printed sources, plus a curiously random bibliography. JOHN CHILDS University of Leeds
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...for undergraduate learning and leisure during the early seventeenth century which further dents the stereotype of the scions of the...lively text in the collection is the narrative, edited by John Childs, of an Englishman abroad during the Franco-Dutch War...
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...varies widely. First-class contributions are provided by John Childs ('The Abortive Invasion of of 1692) and Paul Monod...signatories (p. 56). M. K. Walsh misconstrues the seventeenth-century diplomatic conventions of letters between monarchs to imagine...
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