Empire and Military Revolution in Eastern Europe
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" 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-Crimean system. A central part of this Davies' argument is that identifying and explaining a Military Revolution must involve examining the role of factors not purely military. One must look not only at new military technology, new force and command structure, new tactical thinking, and new recruitment and military finance practices but also consider the impact of larger demographic, economic, and sociopolitical changes."
Brian L. Davies is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He specializes in Russian History as well as early modern European, Ottoman, and Central Asian history. He has published State Power and Community in Early Modern Russia (Palgrave MacMillan), and Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500-1700 (Routledge), and recently contributed two chapters to The Cambridge History of Russia. Volume One: From Early Russia to 1689 (CUP).