Libros

From painterly portrait studies to mythological epics, love stories to picturesque ruins, French art of the baroque and the rococo in the seventeenth century is dazzlingly seductive. This book presents seventy major works of French drawing from the Albertina that highlight the range and power of (...)

Covers the full scope of the French East India Company's military prowess and colonial influence, from its global trade dominance to its strategic triumphs in India and Africa.From the early seventeenth century a multitude of French East or West India companies holding overseas trade monopolies and (...)

This study describes and analyses the Swedish campaign in Muscovy of 1609 1610 and the Ingrian War of 1610 1617 between Sweden and Muscovy; both wars took place during Russia's Time of Troubles'. Faced with a serious threat from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Moscow entered into an alliance (...)

The Sardinian-Piedmontese Army in the War of the Austrian Succession, 1740 1748 is a comprehensive and fully illustrated study of the army's uniforms, colours, standards, and equipment during the conflict.The background to the conflict, the organisation, the principal commanders, regimental (...)