Military Engineers: The Development of the Early Modern European State

by Bruce Lenman

This volume furnishes a unique insight into the role of the Early-Modern European military engineers in the construction and empowerment of sovereign authority, both in European kingdoms and republics and in the vast overseas dominions some of them acquired through the Expansion of Europe. From the Italian Renaissance to the Napoleonic Wars military engineers became indispensable as devisers of the complex systems of fortification needed to resist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845861205
• ISBN13: 9781845861209
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.0" x 6.1"