Gábor Ágoston
Biographic Data
| ID | 5531504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gábor Ágoston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gábor |
| FAMILY NAME | Ágoston |
| SIGNATURE | AGOSTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge History of War
Volume III of The Cambridge History of War covers the early modern world, offering a four-hundred-year perspective from the last Eurasian nomadic empires to the advent of ironclad, steam-driven warships in the mid-nineteenth century. Together, the chapters cover the rise of professional armies and purpose-built warships in Europe; the evolution of military societies in the great Islamic empires; the vicissitudes of Ming and Qing military organiza…
The Last Muslim Conquest
A monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of early modern Europe The Ottomans have long been viewed as despots who conquered through sheer military might, and whose dynasty was peripheral to those of Europe. The Last Muslim Conquest transforms our understanding of the Ottoman Empire, showing how Ottoman statecraft was far more pragmatic and sophisticated than previously acknowledged, and how t…
Ottoman expansion and military power, 1300–1453
The Ottoman empire is named after Osman(d.1324), the eponymous founder of the dynasty, whose name came to be rendered in English as Ottoman. Osman was a Turkish frontier lord – beg in Turkish – who commanded a band of semi-nomadic fighters at the beginning of the fourteenth century in northwestern Asia Minor (Anatolia), known at the time to Turks, Persians, and Arabs as the land of Rum (Rome); that is, the land of the Eastern Roman Empire. Osman …
Firearms and Military Adaptation
The mass adoption of firearms as a tool of warfare dramatically changed the nature of military conflict from the mid fifteenth century onward, prompting historians of early modern Europe to describe the changes as a “gunpowder revolution” or “Military Revolution”—a thesis that provoked a spirited scholarly debate in the 1990s. Although the original concept, as set forth by Michael Roberts in 1955, did not single out firearms technology, in the in…
The Ottomans
From its rise around 1300, and continuing from the mid‐fifteenth century until its demise during World War I, the Ottoman Empire was a crucial player in European and Asian power politics: first as a major Islamic threat to Christian Europe and later as a weakening military power over whose territories and resources the European Great Powers competed. In Chapter 5, Gábor Ágoston examines the grand strategy of the early Ottomans, focusing on how a …
The Ottoman Empire and the Technological Dialogue Between Europe and Asia
Ottoman military organization (up to 1800)
The Ottoman Turks, who emerged in western Asia Minor in the late thirteenth century, built one of the longest‐lived empires in history, a multi‐ethnic state that influenced the lives of millions in Europe and Asia for six centuries until the empire's demise in World War I. In addition to its pragmatic policies and flexible governance, the Ottoman military played a crucial role in the expansion of Ottoman realms. The Ottomans were among the first …
European Warfare, 1350–1750
The period 1350–1750 saw major developments in European warfare, which not only had a huge impact on the way wars were fought, but also are critical to long-standing controversies about state development, the global ascendancy of the West, and the nature of 'military revolutions' past and present. However, the military history of this period is usually written from either medieval or early-modern, and either Western or Eastern European, perspecti…
Guarding the Frontier. Ottoman Border Forts and Garrisons in Europe
XVI. Yüzyılda Macaristan'da Osmanlı Barut Üretimi
Son zamanlara kadar Macaristan'daki Osmanlı kale sistemi bilimsel çevrelerden yalnız ılımlı bir ilgi çekmiştir. Araştırmacılar en önemli kalelerin savaş malzemesi ve yiyecek depolarıyla beraber silah ve cephane üretim merkezleri olduğu gerçeğini neredeyse tamamen göz ardı ettiler. Konuya bu açıdan yaklaşmak askeri tarihi zenginleştirebilir ve Macaristan'daki Osmanlı kalelerinin oluşturulması ve korunması ile ilgili bilgilerimize önemli detaylar e…
Early Modern Ottoman and European gunpowder technology
Merces Prohibitae
Ottoman Warfare in Europe 1453–1826
The Ottoman Empire was a determining world power of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; in modern terms the Empire was a superpower. It held this rank by virtue of its geopolitical situation, its enormous territory and population, its wealth of economic resources, and a central and provincial administration that was capable of mobilising these resources to serve the goals of the state. The efficient use of resources formed the base of the Ot…
Gunpowder for the Sultan's Army
Firearms and Military Adaptation
The mass adoption of firearms as a tool of warfare dramatically changed the nature of military conflict from the mid fifteenth century onward, prompting historians of early modern Europe to describe the changes as a “gunpowder revolution” or “Military Revolution”—a thesis that provoked a spirited scholarly debate in the 1990s. Although the original concept, as set forth by Michael Roberts in 1955, did not single out firearms technology, in the in…
Gunpowder for the Sultan's Army
Merces Prohibitae
Gunpowder for the Sultan's Army
Ottoman Warfare in Europe 1453–1826
The Ottoman Empire was a determining world power of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; in modern terms the Empire was a superpower. It held this rank by virtue of its geopolitical situation, its enormous territory and population, its wealth of economic resources, and a central and provincial administration that was capable of mobilising these resources to serve the goals of the state. The efficient use of resources formed the base of the Ot…
Merces Prohibitae
XVI. Yüzyılda Macaristan'da Osmanlı Barut Üretimi
Son zamanlara kadar Macaristan'daki Osmanlı kale sistemi bilimsel çevrelerden yalnız ılımlı bir ilgi çekmiştir. Araştırmacılar en önemli kalelerin savaş malzemesi ve yiyecek depolarıyla beraber silah ve cephane üretim merkezleri olduğu gerçeğini neredeyse tamamen göz ardı ettiler. Konuya bu açıdan yaklaşmak askeri tarihi zenginleştirebilir ve Macaristan'daki Osmanlı kalelerinin oluşturulması ve korunması ile ilgili bilgilerimize önemli detaylar e…
Early Modern Ottoman and European gunpowder technology
Guarding the Frontier. Ottoman Border Forts and Garrisons in Europe
European Warfare, 1350–1750
The period 1350–1750 saw major developments in European warfare, which not only had a huge impact on the way wars were fought, but also are critical to long-standing controversies about state development, the global ascendancy of the West, and the nature of 'military revolutions' past and present. However, the military history of this period is usually written from either medieval or early-modern, and either Western or Eastern European, perspecti…
The Ottomans
From its rise around 1300, and continuing from the mid‐fifteenth century until its demise during World War I, the Ottoman Empire was a crucial player in European and Asian power politics: first as a major Islamic threat to Christian Europe and later as a weakening military power over whose territories and resources the European Great Powers competed. In Chapter 5, Gábor Ágoston examines the grand strategy of the early Ottomans, focusing on how a …
The Ottoman Empire and the Technological Dialogue Between Europe and Asia
Ottoman military organization (up to 1800)
The Ottoman Turks, who emerged in western Asia Minor in the late thirteenth century, built one of the longest‐lived empires in history, a multi‐ethnic state that influenced the lives of millions in Europe and Asia for six centuries until the empire's demise in World War I. In addition to its pragmatic policies and flexible governance, the Ottoman military played a crucial role in the expansion of Ottoman realms. The Ottomans were among the first …
Firearms and Military Adaptation
The mass adoption of firearms as a tool of warfare dramatically changed the nature of military conflict from the mid fifteenth century onward, prompting historians of early modern Europe to describe the changes as a “gunpowder revolution” or “Military Revolution”—a thesis that provoked a spirited scholarly debate in the 1990s. Although the original concept, as set forth by Michael Roberts in 1955, did not single out firearms technology, in the in…
Ottoman expansion and military power, 1300–1453
The Ottoman empire is named after Osman(d.1324), the eponymous founder of the dynasty, whose name came to be rendered in English as Ottoman. Osman was a Turkish frontier lord – beg in Turkish – who commanded a band of semi-nomadic fighters at the beginning of the fourteenth century in northwestern Asia Minor (Anatolia), known at the time to Turks, Persians, and Arabs as the land of Rum (Rome); that is, the land of the Eastern Roman Empire. Osman …
The Last Muslim Conquest
A monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of early modern Europe The Ottomans have long been viewed as despots who conquered through sheer military might, and whose dynasty was peripheral to those of Europe. The Last Muslim Conquest transforms our understanding of the Ottoman Empire, showing how Ottoman statecraft was far more pragmatic and sophisticated than previously acknowledged, and how t…
The Cambridge History of War
Volume III of The Cambridge History of War covers the early modern world, offering a four-hundred-year perspective from the last Eurasian nomadic empires to the advent of ironclad, steam-driven warships in the mid-nineteenth century. Together, the chapters cover the rise of professional armies and purpose-built warships in Europe; the evolution of military societies in the great Islamic empires; the vicissitudes of Ming and Qing military organiza…
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