Warfare, state and society on the Black Sea steppe

Titel: Warfare, state and society on the Black Sea steppe : 1500 - 1700 / Brian L. Davies
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Veröffentlicht: New York ˜[u.a.]œ : Routledge, 2007
Umfang: XV, 256 S. : Kt.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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mehrbändiges Werk:
Warfare and history
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ISBN: 0415239850 ; 9780415239851 ; 0415239869 ; 9780415239868
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  • Acknowledgments
  • p. vii
  • List of archival sources
  • p. viii
  • List of abbreviations
  • p. ix
  • Frontispiece Map I
  • p. xii
  • Frontispiece Map II
  • p. xiv
  • 1
  • Colonization, war, and slaveraiding on the Black Sea steppe in the sixteenth century
  • p. 1
  • Early Polish-Lithuanian and Muscovite expansion towards the Black Sea
  • p. 1
  • The Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire
  • p. 6
  • Poland-Lithuania and the Ottoman-Tatar alliance
  • p. 9
  • Muscovy and the Ottoman-Tatar alliance
  • p. 11
  • Crimean Tatar invasions
  • p. 17
  • Crimean Tatar slaveraiding
  • p. 23
  • The Nogais and Kalmyks
  • p. 27
  • The formation of the cossack Hosts
  • p. 29
  • Poland-Lithuania's southern frontier defense system
  • p. 33
  • Southern frontier security: the Muscovite approach
  • p. 39
  • 2
  • Muscovy's southern borderland defense strategy, 1500-1635
  • p. 41
  • The Bank Array
  • p. 42
  • The Abatis Line
  • p. 44
  • Command-and-control
  • p. 47
  • Mobilizations and logistics
  • p. 49
  • Tactics
  • p. 52
  • Combined operations
  • p. 56
  • Town garrisons
  • p. 59
  • Reconnaissance, sorties, and sieges
  • p. 61
  • The changing social profile of military colonization
  • p. 64
  • Borderland defenses after the Troubles
  • p. 66
  • Military reform for the Smolensk campaign
  • p. 70
  • The Smolensk War and its impact on southern Muscovy
  • p. 73
  • 3
  • The Belgorod Line
  • p. 78
  • New danger from the Khanate
  • p. 78
  • Refortifying the Abatis Line
  • p. 79
  • New methods of military colonization
  • p. 81
  • The odnodvortsy
  • p. 85
  • The Azov crisis and the founding of the Belgorod Line
  • p. 88
  • The first Don expeditions by Muscovite forces
  • p. 95
  • Cossack unrest in Commonwealth Ukraine
  • p. 97
  • Impact on Muscovy
  • p. 100
  • Bohdan Khmel'nyts'kyi's revolt
  • p. 103
  • The decision to intervene
  • p. 106
  • The consequences of the Pereiaslav Agreement
  • p. 111
  • 4
  • The Ukrainian quagmire
  • p. 115
  • The Thirteen Years' War: the first phase, 1654-1657
  • p. 115
  • The revolt of Hetman Vyhovs'kyi, 1657-1659
  • p. 125
  • Expanding the foreign formations
  • p. 132
  • From Chudnovo to Glukhov, 1659-1664
  • p. 142
  • Stalemate
  • p. 148
  • The Andrusovo Armistice and the new Ottoman threat
  • p. 150
  • 5
  • The Chyhyryn campaigns and the wars of the Holy League
  • p. 155
  • Ottoman military intervention in Ukraine, 1669-1676
  • p. 155
  • The First Russo-Turkish War, 1676-1681
  • p. 159
  • Improving logistics and command-and-control
  • p. 172
  • Muscovy in the Holy League
  • p. 175
  • The Azov campaigns of Peter I
  • p. 183
  • 6
  • The balance of power at century's end
  • p. 188
  • The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  • p. 188
  • The Crimean Khanate
  • p. 190
  • Ottoman power on the northern Black Sea coast
  • p. 193
  • The cossack polities
  • p. 198
  • Muscovy
  • p. 201
  • Notes
  • p. 208
  • Bibliography
  • p. 223
  • Index
  • p. 249