Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500-1800

Brian L. Davies, Ph.D. (1983) in History, University of Chicago, is Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. A specialist in early modern Russian history; he has published State Power and Community in Early Modern Russia (2004) and Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe (2007).

• Introduction ... 1Brian DaviesEconomic Effectiveness of the Muscovite Pomest’e System: An Examination of Estate Incomes and Military Expenses in the Mid-16th Century...19Janet MartinThe Habsburg Defense System in Hungary Against the Ottomans in the Sixteenth Century: A Catalyst of Military Development in Central Europe ...35Géza Pálff yThe Polish-Lithuanian Army in the Reign of King Stefan Bathory (1576–1586) ...63Dariusz KupiszGuliai-gorod, Wagenburg, and Tabor Tactics in 16th–17th Century Muscovy and Eastern Europe ...93Brian DaviesThe Flodorf Project: Russia in the International Mercenary Market in the Early Seventeenth Century ...109Oleg A. NozdrinFood and Supply: Logistics and the Early Modern Russian Army ...119Carol B. StevensCrimean Tatar Long-Range Campaigns: The View from Remmal Khoja’s History of Sahib Gerey Khan ...147Victor OstapchukThe Siege of Azov in 1641: Military Realities and Literary Myth ...173Brian J. BoeckThe Generation of 1683: The Scientifi c Revolution and Generalship in the Habsburg Army, 1686–1723 ...199Erik A. LundCommand and Control in the Seventeenth-Century Russian Army ...249Peter B. BrownOttoman Military Power in the Eighteenth Century ...315Virginia AksanList of Contributors ...349Bibliography ...353Index ...357