Klik på en miniature for at gå til Google Books
Indlæser... Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the 16th Century, Revised Edition (udgave 2003)af John Francis Guilmartin (Forfatter)
Work InformationGunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the 16th Century, Revised Edition af John Francis Guilmartin
Ingen Indlæser...
Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Updated by recent research into orders of battles and ballistics, gunnery and cannon founding, this classic study outlines the naval wars between the Ottoman empire and its Christian opponents and illustrates the interaction between commerce and warfare in the 16th-century Mediterranean. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsIngen
Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)359.0091822Social sciences Public Administration, Military Science Navy; Naval Science Biography; History By PlaceLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
Er det dig?Bliv LibraryThing-forfatter. |
This evolution, in Guilmartin's argument, was not due primarily to narrowly technological reasons - the tall ship was not simply better than the galley in some platonic military sense - but mediated by a range of social and economic factors. Most importantly, throughout the sixteenth century the relative cost of cannon and gunpowder fell compared to that of labour and food. Accordingly, the cost-effectiveness of a galley with few guns and many crewmen inexorably declined relative to a sailing ship with many guns and a comparatively small crew.
Highly interesting and broadly convincing, I'd recommend it to anyone interested in naval history. Galley warfare is quite different from "classical" Age of Sail naval warfare, and might be an interesting eye-opener to those used to it.
Something that would have been worth an excursion or appendix is the revival of galleys in the eighteenth century Baltic Sea. Whatever factors made galleys viable here didn't include spiking artillery costs - indeed the Swedish "Archipelago Fleet" supplemented galleys with specialist artillery ships that sported enormous firepower by sixteenth century standards.