States, Arms, Armies, and Navies
Seminar Questions
- What was the relationship between states and violence in early modern Europe?
- What was the impact of war on civilians in early modern Europe?
- To what extent did the martial ethic change between 1500 and 1700?
Required Reading
All students should read
Wilson, Peter, 'Warfare in Europe', in Robert J. Antony, Stuart Carroll, and Caroline Dodds Pennock, eds, The Cambridge World History of Violence: 1500-1800 CELink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 2020), pp. 174-93.
AND two of the following items:
- Carlton, Charles, Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638-1651Link opens in a new window (London, 1992) [Chapter 7: The Miserable Effects of War, pp. 150-179]
- Davis, Ann E., 'Bringing Politics Back In: Violence, Finance, and the StateLink opens in a new window', Journal of Economic Issues 47:1 (2014), 219-246.
- Hallenberg, Mats, 'The Golden Age of the Aggressive Male? Violence, Masculinity and the State in Sixteenth-Century SwedenLink opens in a new window', Gender & History 25/1 (2013), 132–49.
- Mortimer, Geoff, Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years WarLink opens in a new window (Basingstoke, 2002), pp. 38-70.
- Tilly, Charles, ‘War-Making and State-Making as Organized CrimeLink opens in a new window’, in Peter B. Evans et al., eds, Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 169-191
E-Resources
- De Re MilitariLink opens in a new window
- Jacques Callot and the Miseries of the Thirty Years' WarLink opens in a new window
- 'The Siege of Chester during the English Civil WarLink opens in a new window' Voices of the Powerless. BBC Radio programme broadcast 22 August 2002.
Further Reading
Amirell, S. E., et al. (eds), Persistent Piracy: Maritime Violence and State-Formation in Global Historical Perspective Link opens in a new window(Basingstoke, 2014)
Anglo, Sydney, The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe (New Haven, 2000)
Barbalet, Jack, 'Violence and Politics: Reconsidering Weber's "Politics as a VocationLink opens in a new window’", Sociology (2020)
Black, Jeremy, War and the Cultural Turn (Cambridge, 2013)
Black, Jeremy, War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents 1450-1600 (New Haven, 2008)
Boes, Maria R., Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany: courts and adjudicatory practices in Frankfurt am Main, 1562-1696Link opens in a new window (Farnham, 2013)
Bourdieu, Pierre, On the State (Cambridge, 2015)
Carroll, Stuart, Blood and Violence in Early Modern FranceLink opens in a new window (Oxford, 2006)
Donagan, Barbara, ‘Atrocity, War, Crime and Treason in the English Civil WarLink opens in a new window’, American Historical Review 99/4 (1994), 1137-66
Donagan, Barbara, War in England, 1642-1649Link opens in a new window (Oxford, 2008)
von Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel, SimplicissimusLink opens in a new window, trans. Michael Mitchell (Sawtry, 1999)
Glete, Jan, War and the State in Early Modern Europe: Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as Fiscal-Military States, 1500-1660Link opens in a new window (London, 2002)
Hale, J.R., War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450-1620Link opens in a new window (London, 1985)
Hallenberg, Mats, 'The Golden Age of the Aggressive Male? Violence, Masculinity and the State in Sixteenth-Century SwedenLink opens in a new window', Gender & History 25/1 (2013), 132–49.
Härter, Karl, 'Political Crime in Early Modern Europe: Assassination, Legal Responses and Popular Print MediaLink opens in a new window', European Journal of Criminology 11/2 (2013), 142-68
Helfferich, Tryntje, ed. and trans., The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History (Indianapolis, 2009)
James, Alan, 'Rethinking the Peace of Westphalia: Toward a Theory of Early-Modern Warfare' in Jonathan Davies (ed.), Aspects of Violence in Renaissance EuropeLink opens in a new window (Farnham, 2013), pp. 107-126.
Kaeuper, Richard, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford, 1999)
Koskinen, Ulla, Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, c. 1500-1700 (Basingstoke, 2017)
Kunzle, David, From Criminal to Courtier: The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672 (Leiden, 2002)
Lane, F. C., 'Economic Consequences of Organized ViolenceLink opens in a new window', Journal of Economic History 18 (1958), 401-17.
Lane, F. C., Profits from Power: Readings in Protection Rent and Violence-Controlling Enterprises (Albany, 1979)
Lawrence, D. R., The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England, 1603-1645 (Leiden, 2008)
Lewis, C.P., and A.T. Thacker, eds, 'Early modern Chester 1550-1762: The civil war and interregnum, 1642-60Link opens in a new window', in A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 part 1: The City of Chester: General History and Topography (London, 2003), pp. 115-125.
Lynn II, John A., Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2008)
Malešević, Siniša, The Sociology of War and Violence (Cambridge, 2010)
Manning, Roger B., Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms (Oxford, 2003)
Marklund, Andreas, ‘The Manly Sacrifice: Martial Manliness and Patriotic Martyrdom in Nordic PropagandaLink opens in a new window
during the Great Northern WarLink opens in a new window’, Gender & History 25/1 (2013), 150–69.
Mortimer, Geoff, ed. and trans., Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48Link opens in a new window (Basingstoke, 2002)
Murphey, Rhoads, Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700Link opens in a new window (London, 1999)
Redlich, Fritz, De praeda militari. Looting and booty, 1500-1815Link opens in a new window (Wiesbaden, 1956)
Rogers, Clifford, J., ed., The Military Revolution Debate: Readings on the Military Transformation of Early Modern EuropeLink opens in a new window (Boulder, CO, 1995)
Ó Siochrú, Micheál, 'Atrocity, Codes of Conduct and the Irish in the British Civil Wars 1641–1653', Past and Present 195 (2007), 55-86.
Parrott, David, The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern EuropeLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 2012)
Roberts, Penny, Peace and Authority During the French Religious Wars c.1560-1600Link opens in a new window (Basingstoke, 2013)
Sandberg, Brian, War and Conflict in the Early Modern World: 1500-1700Link opens in a new window (London, 2016)
Sandberg, Brian, Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Baltimore, 2010)
Steensgard, N., 'Violence and the Rise of Capitalism: F. C. Lane's Theory of Protection and Tribute', Review : Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center 5 (1981), 247-73
Tallett, Frank, War and Society in Early-Modern EuropeLink opens in a new window (London, 1992)
Tallett, Frank, and D. J. B. Trim, eds, European Warfare 1350-1750 (Cambridge, 2010)
Thomson, Janice, E., Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns: State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern EuropeLink opens in a new window (Princeton, N.J, 1994)
Tilly, Charles, Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D.990-1992, rev. ed. (Oxford, 1992)
Tlusty, B. Ann, The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of ArmsLink opens in a new window (Basingstoke, 2011)
Ulbricht, O., 'The Experience of Violence during the Thirty Years War: A Look at the Civilian Victims', in J. Canning, H. Lehmann, and J. Winter, eds, Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-modern and Modern Times (Farnham, 2004), 97–128.
Weber, Max, 'Politics as VocationLink opens in a new window', in Max Weber's Complete Writings on Academic and Political Vocations, ed. John Dreijmanis, trans. Gordon C. Wells (New York, 2008), pp. 126-166
Wilson, Peter H., ed. and trans., The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook (Houndmills, 2010)
Wolfthal, Diane, 'Jacques Callot's Miseries of War
Link opens in a new window', The Art Bulletin 59/2 (1977), 222-233.
Zmora, Hillary, State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany: The Knightly Feud in Franconia, 1440-1567Link opens in a new window (Cambridge, 1997)
