Gunpowder & galleys : changing technology & Mediterranean warfare at sea in the 16th century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Guilmartin, John F., Jr. (John Francis), 1940-2016
Other Authors:	Guilmartin, John Francis
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [2003]
Edition:	Rev. ed.
Subjects:	Mediterranean Region > History, Naval > 16th century. Naval art and science > History > 16th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Jiddah, 1517
The Mahanians' fallacy
Prevesa, 1538
The Mediterranean system of warfare at sea: geographic origins and operational characteristics
William Towerson's fight off the Guinea coast, 1557
The Mediterranean system of naval warfare: physical, economic and social limitations
Djerba, 1560
The weapons of sixteenth-century warfare at sea
Malta, 1565
The galley
Lepanto, 1571
The decline of the Mediterranean system of warfare at sea: technological change, social and economic causes and effects
Appendix 1. The development and tactical employment of individual firearms in the sixteenth century
Appendix 2. The external and internal ballistics of sixteenth-century cannon
Appendix 3. The design and construction of bronze cannon in the sixteenth century
Appendix 4. Computation of the speed of sixteenth-century galleys under oars
Appendix 5. The oficiales, soldiers and oarsmen carried aboard sixteenth-century Spanish galleys
Appendix 6. The classification and arrangement of ordnance on sixteenth-century galleys.