The Road to Rocroi: Class, Culture and Command in the Spanish Army of Flanders, 1567-1659 by González de León, Fernando

The Road to Rocroi: Class, Culture and Command in the Spanish Army of Flanders, 1567-1659 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004170827)

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The Road to Rocroi: Class, Culture and Command in the Spanish Army of Flanders, 1567-1659 by González de León, Fernando

The Road to Rocroi: Class, Culture and Command in the Spanish Army of Flanders, 1567-1659

$250.00
The Road to Rocroi: Class, Culture and Command in the Spanish Army of Flanders, 1567-1659 by González de León, Fernando

The Road to Rocroi: Class, Culture and Command in the Spanish Army of Flanders, 1567-1659

$250.00
Format: Hardcover
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The Eighty Years War (1567-1659) has been the subject of important monographs but the high command of the Army of Flanders, which played a decisive role in the making of Spanish strategy and was in charge of its tactics, has eluded detailed scrutiny. This work, the first study of an early modern officer corps, examines the culture, class structure, and combat effectiveness of the largest army of its day. Combining approaches and insights from social, cultural and military history, it traces the evolution of the leading cadres of the legendary tercios in relation to major trends such as aristocratization and military modernization while revising recent perspectives on Spain's war against the Dutch and the French in the Low Countries.

Author: Fernando González de León
ISBN-10: 9004170820
ISBN-13: 9789004170827
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2008
Pages: 406
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.40w x 1.10d
By Fernando González de León
By Fernando González de León
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Fernando Gonz?lez de Le?n, Ph.D. (1992) in History, The Johns Hopkins University, is Associate Professor of History at Springfield College and has published essays on early modern and modern Spanish history with an emphasis on military, social and cultural factors.

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