Description: Cities at War in Early Modern Europe, Hardcover by Pollak, Martha D., ISBN 052111344X, ISBN-13 9780521113441, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its regular bastions, redefined the identityof the early modern city. Military planning also generated new forms of urban spaces, such as the orderly grid, the tree-lined avenue, the great central square dominated by triumphal sculpture, and the greenbelt that provided clear boundaries and controlled viewpoints. In The city at war in early modern Europe, Martha Pollak offers a pan-European, richly illustrated study of early modern military urbanism, an international style of urban design characterized by uniformity, geometrical clarity, architectural economy, and unadorned monumentality. Pollak examines this new urbanism as visualized by engravers, painters, and cartographers in accurate plans and powerful panoramic views. Her comparative, transnational study ranges from Britain to the Ottoman Empire, and from Malta to Scandinavia, and focuses on major centers--Naples, Paris, Antwerp, Stockholm--and "fortress cities" such as Valletta and Palmanova, which are still defined by their immense, geometrically perfect fortifications"--Provided by publisher.
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Book Title: Cities at War in Early Modern Europe
Number of Pages: 370 Pages
Publication Name: Cities at War in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2010
Subject: Military Science, Sociology / General, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Regional, Europe / General, Sociology / Urban
Item Weight: 46.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Martha D. Pollak
Item Length: 11.3 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Architecture, Social Science, History
Item Width: 8.9 in
Format: Hardcover
