Gunpowder and galleys : changing technology and Mediterranean warfare at sea in the sixteenth century /
Analyzes all aspects of dominant fleets of sixteenth century Mediterranean (Spain, Venice, and Ottoman Empire) including: the galley and its design, the manning and recruiting of weaponry, the strategy and tactics of galley warfare, the effects of gunpowder, and the impact of social, economic, geogr...
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New York : Cambridge University Press,
1974.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in early modern history.
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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
- Computation of the speed of sixteenth-century galleys under oars
- Appendix 5. The "oficiales", soldiers, and oarsmen carried aboard sixteenth-century galleys
- Appendix 6. The classification and arrangement of ordnance on sixteenth-century galleys.