Gunpowder & galleys : changing technology & Mediterranean warfare at sea in the 16th century / John Francis Guilmartin, Jr.
| Author/creator | Guilmartin, John F. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Rev. ed. |
| Publication Info | Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, 2003. |
| Description | 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Gunpowder and galleys : changing technology and Mediterranean warfare at sea in the sixteenth century |
| Contents | Introduction -- Jiddah, 1517 -- The Mahanians' fallacy -- Prevesa, 1538 -- The Mediterranean system of warfare at sea: geographic origins and operational characteristics -- William Towerson's fight off the Guinea coast, 1557 -- The Mediterranean system of naval warfare: physical, economic and social limitations -- Djerba, 1560 -- The weapons of sixteenth-century warfare at sea -- Malta, 1565 -- The galley -- Lepanto, 1571 -- The decline of the Mediterranean system of warfare at sea: technological change, social and economic causes and effects -- Appendix 1. The development and tactical employment of individual firearms in the sixteenth century -- Appendix 2. The external and internal ballistics of sixteenth-century cannon -- Appendix 3. The design and construction of bronze cannon in the sixteenth century -- Appendix 4. Computation of the speed of sixteenth-century galleys under oars -- Appendix 5. The oficiales, soldiers and oarsmen carried aboard sixteenth-century Spanish galleys -- Appendix 6. The classification and arrangement of ordnance on sixteenth-century galleys. |
| General note | First published in 1974 by Cambridge University Press. |
| General note | This rev. ed. first published in 2003 by Conway Maritime Press. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-342) and index. |
| LCCN | 2003106253 |
| ISBN | 1591143470 |