1. Projecting Power in the Early Modern World

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps vii
4. 1. Projecting Power in the Early Modern World 1
5. I. Military, Cultural, and Diplomatic Exchange in the Imperial-Indigenous Encounter
6. 2. Gaining the Diplomatic Edge 19
7. 3. The Military Revolution of Native North America 49
8. 4. Revolution, Evolution, or Devolution 81
9. II. Warrior Peoples and Uniform Recruits in Old World Empires
10. 5. Muscovite-Nomad Relations on the Steppe Frontier before 1800 and the Development of Russia’s “Inclusive” Imperialism 109
11. 6. Ottoman Ethnographies of Warfare, 1500–1800 141
12. III. Variations: Types of Indigenous-Imperial Alliances in the Atlantic Empires
13. 7. Firearms, Diplomacy, and Conquest in Angola 167
14. 8. The Opportunities and Limits of Ethnic Soldiering 193
15. 9. Deploying Tribes and Clans 221
16. 10. “Cleansing the Land” 251
17. Contributors 277
18. Index 279