Gunpowder & galleys : changing technology & Mediterranean warfare at sea in the 16th century / John Francis Guilmartin, Jr.

Author:: Guilmartin, John F., Jr. (John Francis), 1940-2016
Additional Titles:: Gunpowder and galleys : changing technology and Mediterranean warfare at sea in the sixteenth century
Published:: Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, 2003.
Edition:: Rev. ed.
Physical Description:: 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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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.

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ISBN:

1591143470

Note:

First published in 1974 by Cambridge University Press.
This rev. ed. first published in 2003 by Conway Maritime Press.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-342) and index.

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