Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500-1800 / edited by Brian L. Davies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-356) and index.

Economic effectiveness of the Pomest'e System: an examination of estate incomes and military expenses in the mid-16th century / Janet Martin -- The Habsburg defense system in Hungary against the Ottomans in the 16th century: a catalyst of military development in Central Europe / Geza Palff y -- The Polish-Lithuanian army in the reign of King Stefan Bathory, (1576-1586) / Dariusz Kupisz -- Guliai-Gorod, Wagenburg, and Tabor tactics in 16th-17th century Muscovy and Eastern Europe / Brian Davies -- The Flodorf Project: Russia in the international mercenary market in the early seventeenth century / Oleg A. Nozdrin -- Food and supply: logistics and the early modern Russian army / Carol B. Stevens -- Crimean Tatar long-range campaigns: the view from Remmal Khoja's The history of Sahib Gerey Khan / Victor Ostapchuk -- The siege of Azov in 1641: military realities and literary myth / Brian J. Boeck -- The generation of 1683: the scientific revolution and generalship in the Habsburg army, 1686-1723 / Erik R. Lund -- Command and control in the seventeenth-century Russian army / Peter B. Brown -- Ottoman military power in the eighteenth century / Virginia Aksan.

This volume examines continuities and new developments in the conduct of warfare in early modern Eastern Europe from the early sixteenth century, when Ottoman imperial expansion reached the Danube and Crimea, to the late eighteenth century, when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned out of existence and Russia rolled back Ottoman power from Ukraine and Moldavia. Contributors include specialists in Russian, Polish, Ottoman, Habsburg, Cossack, and Crimean Tatar history. The essays engage military history understood in the broadest sense and treat such subjects as taxation, recruitment, the sociology and culture of officer corps, logistics, command-and-control, and ideology as well as technology and tactics. The volume aims at facilitating comparative study of Eastern European military development across Eastern Europe and its points of divergence from military practice in the West. Contributors are Virginia H. Aksan, Brian J. Boeck, Peter B. Brown, Brian Davies, Dariusz Kupisz, Erik Lund, Janet Martin, Oleg Nozdrin, Victor Ostapchuk, Geza Palffy and Carol Belkin Stevens.