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Phillip Williams

Empire and Holy War in the Mediterranean

The Galley and Maritime Conflict between the Habsburgs and Ottomans

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In the century after 1530 the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere. Lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph, in part because the principal beneficiaries of the fighting were pirates or 'corsairs' based in ports such as Malta and Algiers. It was also a war of unequal means, since the Habsburgs had too few good warships and the Ottomans too many bad ones. Phillip Williams here provides a detailed examination of the oared warships used in the fighting, the structures of political and military organization, the role of geography and the environment and the respective claims… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-85772-575-2
  • EAN: 9780857725752
  • Produktnummer: 34596034
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 384 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 11'688 KB
  • Abbildungen: 6 bw integrated

Über den Autor


Phillip Williams holds a DPhil from New College, Oxford. He was formerly Lecturer in History at Bangor University.

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