Code: 04534866

Hero of Italy

Name: Hero of Italy
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 04534866
Price: 182.82 EUR
Availability: BackOrder

by Gregory Hanlon

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014
More about this

182.82 €

Availability:

50/50

We think title might be available. Upon your order we will do our best to get it within 6 weeks.
We search the world

Availability alert

Add to wishlist

How Did That Get to My Table? Pasta
30.29 € -4 %
Buy
Diwan/Abu Bakr Al-gazzar, el poeta de la aljafería
23.95 €
Buy

Give this book as a present today

Order book and choose Gift Order.
We will send you book gift voucher at once. You can give it out to anyone.
Book will be send to donee, nothing more to care about.

Book gift voucher sample Read more

Availability alert

We will watch availability for you

Enter your e-mail address and once book will be available,
we will send you a message. It's that simple.

You get 460 loyalty points

Book synopsis

The Hero of Italy examines a salient episode in Italy's Thirty Years' War with Spain and France, whereby the young duke Odoardo Farnese of Parma embraced the French alliance, only to experience defeat and occupation after two tumultuous years (1635-1637). Gregory Hanlon stresses the narrative of events unfolding in northern Italy, examining the participation of the little state in these epic European events. The first chapter describes the constitution of Cardinal Richelieu's anti-Habsburg alliance and Odoardo's eagerness to be part of it. A chapter on the Parman professional army, based on an extraordinary collection of company roster-books, sheds light on the identity of over 13,000 individuals, soldier by soldier, the origin and background of their officers, the conditions of their lodgings, and the good state of their equipment. Chapter three follows the first campaign of 1635 alongside French and Savoyard contingents at the failed siege of Valenza, and the logistical difficulties of organizing such large-scale operations. Another chapter examines the financial expedients the duchy adopted to fend off incursions on all its borders in 1636, and how militia contingents on both sides were drawn into the fighting. A final chapter relates the Spanish invasion and occupation which forced duke Odoardo to make a separate peace. The volume includes a detailed assessment of the impact of war on civilians based on parish registers for city and country. The application of the laws of war was largely nullified by widespread starvation, disease and routine sex-selective infanticide. These quantitative analyses, supported by maps and tables, are among the most detailed anywhere in Europe in the era of the Thirty Years' War.

Book details

Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

182.82 €

Full title: Hero of Italy
Subtitle: Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, his Soldiers, and his Subjects in the Thirty Years' War
Author: Gregory Hanlon
Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 256
EAN: 9780199687244
ISBN: 0199687242
ID: 04534866
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Weight: 534 g
Dimensions: 239 × 160 × 20 mm
Date of publishing: 06. March 2014