The Changing Face of Old Regime Warfare: Essays in Honour of Christopher Duffy Burns Alexander S.
Over the last 60 years, British historian Professor Christopher Duffy has fundamentally reshaped our understanding of warfare in the late Old Regime. For much of the twentieth century, historians…
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Over the last 60 years, British historian Professor Christopher Duffy has fundamentally reshaped our understanding of warfare in the late Old Regime. For much of the twentieth century, historians asserted that the military forces of Old Regime Europe were stagnant, formalized, and decorative. In this view, Old Regime armies were a lacy pastel faade destroyed by the new military prowess of Napoleon. A specialist on the Austrian, Prussian, Russian, and Jacobite armies of the mid-eighteenth century, Professor Duffy demanded that we understand the armies of the Old Regime as they were: serious and dangerous military institutions.The Changing Face of Old Regime Warfare is a festschrift honoring Professor Duffy's legacy of writing on this pivotal period of military history. The book collects 16 essays by scholars from seven countries on three continents, which together tell