The National Archives

FORTS

An illustrated history of building for defence

Buch

Ever since humans began to live together in settlements they have felt the need to organise some kind of defence against potentially hostile neighbours. Many of the earliest city states were built as walled towns, and during the medieval era, stone castles were built both as symbols of the defenders' strength and as protection against potential attack. The advent of cannon prompted fortifications to become lower, denser and more complex, and the forts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries could appear like snowflakes in their complexity and beautiful geometry. Without forts, the history of America could have taken a very different course… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Black, Jeremy (University of Exeter, UK)

ISBN: 978-1-4728-2763-0
EAN: 9781472827630
Produktnummer: 25393402
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Masse: H29.0 cm x B28.7 cm x D2.2 cm 1'638 g
Gewicht: 1638
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Jeremy Black, internationally known military historian and Professor of History at the University of Exeter, is the author of The Cold War: A Military History, Rethinking World War Two: The Conflict and its Legacy, Metropolis, Maps of War and Mapping Naval Warfare among many others. He is also a keen writer on maps and their history. This book brings together his two main interests. He lives in Exeter, UK.