George Raudzens
Biographic Data
| ID | 1451216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Raudzens |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Raudzens |
| SIGNATURE | RAUDZENS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Technology, Disease and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
The eight essays in this study reassess evidence about the plausibility of the widely accepted guns and germs theories which put forward firepower advantages and inadvertent disease importation as the two main causes of European imperial expansion overseas during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. All argue that these theories are important but oversimplified. The effectiveness of firepower and disease impacts on specific groups…
Military Revolution or Maritime Evolution? Military Superiorities or Transportation Advantages as Main Causes of European Colonial Conquests to 1788
George Raudzens, Military Revolution or Maritime Evolution? Military Superiorities or Transportation Advantages as Main Causes of European Colonial Conquests to 1788, The Journal of Military History, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Jul., 1999), pp. 631-641
In Search of Better Quantification for War History
What are our next moves in the analysis of war history numbers? For separate wars and battles there are plenty of data. Old and new dictionary-encyclopedias of warfare are as loaded with numbers as the most numerate fields of historiography. The fascination for keeping the score, for quantifying wins and losses, continues. The 'war and society' historians are currently adding new dimensions by calculating the impacts of army and navy growth rates…
Why Did Amerindian Defences Fail? Parallels in the European Invasions of Hispaniola, Virginia and Beyond
So Why Were the Aztecs Conquered, and What Were the Wider Implications? Testing Military Superiority as a Cause of Europe's Pre- industrial Colonial Conquests
War-Winning Weapons
Blitzkrieg Ambiguities
The British Ordance Department and Canada's Canals 1815-1855
The Military Impact on Canadian Canals, 1815–25
A Successful Military Settlement
tary settlements has often been noted but seldom stressed by historians. It can be argued that, in contrast to the Romans who built much of their empire by such means, Britain's peopling of North America, Australasia, and parts of Africa was largely a civilian process. Them were, nevertheless, occasions when London resorted to military settlement echniques reminiscent of those used by Rome, sometimes augmenting the voluntary flow of emigrants by …
Military Revolution or Maritime Evolution? Military Superiorities or Transportation Advantages as Main Causes of European Colonial Conquests to 1788
George Raudzens, Military Revolution or Maritime Evolution? Military Superiorities or Transportation Advantages as Main Causes of European Colonial Conquests to 1788, The Journal of Military History, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Jul., 1999), pp. 631-641
Technology, Disease and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
The eight essays in this study reassess evidence about the plausibility of the widely accepted guns and germs theories which put forward firepower advantages and inadvertent disease importation as the two main causes of European imperial expansion overseas during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. All argue that these theories are important but oversimplified. The effectiveness of firepower and disease impacts on specific groups…
Blitzkrieg Ambiguities
A Successful Military Settlement
tary settlements has often been noted but seldom stressed by historians. It can be argued that, in contrast to the Romans who built much of their empire by such means, Britain's peopling of North America, Australasia, and parts of Africa was largely a civilian process. Them were, nevertheless, occasions when London resorted to military settlement echniques reminiscent of those used by Rome, sometimes augmenting the voluntary flow of emigrants by …
The Military Impact on Canadian Canals, 1815–25
The British Ordance Department and Canada's Canals 1815-1855
Blitzkrieg Ambiguities
War-Winning Weapons
So Why Were the Aztecs Conquered, and What Were the Wider Implications? Testing Military Superiority as a Cause of Europe's Pre- industrial Colonial Conquests
Why Did Amerindian Defences Fail? Parallels in the European Invasions of Hispaniola, Virginia and Beyond
In Search of Better Quantification for War History
What are our next moves in the analysis of war history numbers? For separate wars and battles there are plenty of data. Old and new dictionary-encyclopedias of warfare are as loaded with numbers as the most numerate fields of historiography. The fascination for keeping the score, for quantifying wins and losses, continues. The 'war and society' historians are currently adding new dimensions by calculating the impacts of army and navy growth rates…
Military Revolution or Maritime Evolution? Military Superiorities or Transportation Advantages as Main Causes of European Colonial Conquests to 1788
George Raudzens, Military Revolution or Maritime Evolution? Military Superiorities or Transportation Advantages as Main Causes of European Colonial Conquests to 1788, The Journal of Military History, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Jul., 1999), pp. 631-641
Technology, Disease and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
The eight essays in this study reassess evidence about the plausibility of the widely accepted guns and germs theories which put forward firepower advantages and inadvertent disease importation as the two main causes of European imperial expansion overseas during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. All argue that these theories are important but oversimplified. The effectiveness of firepower and disease impacts on specific groups…
Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
History (10 works) · History (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works)