Jeremy Black: Forts | Buch

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Cover: 9781472827630 | Forts | An illustrated history of building for defence | Black (u. a.)

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Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung

Ever since humans began to live together in settlements they have felt the need to organise some kind of defence against potentially hostile neighbours. Many of the earliest city states were built as walled towns, and during the medieval era, stone castles were built both as symbols of the defenders' strength and as protection against potential attack. The advent of cannon prompted fortifications to become lower, denser and more complex, and the forts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries could appear like snowflakes in their complexity and beautiful geometry. Without forts, the history of America could have taken a very different course, pirates could have sailed the seas unchecked, and Britain itself could have been successfully invaded.

This book explains the history of human fortifications, and is beautifully illustrated using photographs, plans, drawings and maps to explain why they were built, their various functions and their immense historical legacy in laying the foundations of empire.

Über den Autor

The National Archives, Jeremy Black

Zusammenfassung

It shows how the design of fortifications adapted to the changing technology of war.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Origins
The medieval castle
The sixteenth century
The seventeenth century
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

Index
Image credits

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	224
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781472827630
ISBN-10:	1472827635
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Black, Jeremy The National Archives
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	287 x 286 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Jeremy Black (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	20.09.2018
Gewicht:	1,636 kg

preigu-id: 111229282