DAVIES L. BRIAN

(P/B) EMPIRE AND MILITARY REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE
In terms of resource mobilization and devastation the wars between Russia, the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire were some of the largest of the eighteenth century, and had enormous consequences for the balance of power in Eastern Europe. Davies examines how these conflicts characterized the course of Russian military development in response to Ottoman and Crimean Tatar threats and to determine under what circumstances and in what ways Russian military power experienced a "revolution" awarding it clear preponderance over the Ottoman-C...
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(P/B) WARFARE, STATE AND SOCIETY ON THE BLACK SEA STEPPE, 1500-1700
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Muscovy waged a costly struggle against the Crimean Khanate, the Ottoman Empire, and the Polish -Lithuanian Commonwealth for control of the fertile steppe above the Black, Sea. This was a region of great strategic and economic importance - arguably the pivot of Eurasia at the time. Yet, this crucial period in Russia's history has, up until now, been neglected by historians. Brian L. Davies's study provides an essential insight into the emergence of Russia as a great power. The long campaign took a...
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