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The hundred years war for Morocco : gunpowder and the military revolution in the early modern Muslim world

Author: Weston F Cook
Publisher: Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.
Series: History and warfare.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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The Hundred Years War for Morocco reinterprets early modern Moroccan history, focusing on evolving modes of warfare as the decisive force that structured and propelled revolutionary change in sixteenth-century Morocco. Enfeebled by revolts, invasions, and civil war, Moroccan society at first lay open to conquest by European and Ottoman armies wielding gunpowder weapons.
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Cook, Weston F.
Hundred years war for Morocco.
Boulder : Westview Press, 1994
(OCoLC)623415993
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Weston F Cook
ISBN: 0813314356 9780813314358
OCLC Number: 26810346
Description: xix, 332 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: English-Arabic Transliteration Chart --
Introduction: A Military History of Early Modern Morocco --
1. Society, State, and Army in Late-Medieval Morocco. Late-Medieval Morocco: The Setting. The Operational Heritage: Late-Medieval Field Tactics --
2. A Primer on Gunpowder Warfare. Siege War: Guns in the Late-Medieval Hispano Maghrib. Firearms Technology and Warfare in Transition. Soldiers, Ships, and the Balance of Forces --
3. Overture and Onslaught, 1415-1472. The First Portuguese Invasions: The Storm Comes Ashore. The First Moroccan Firearms and the Last Marinids. The Hundred Years War for Morocco Begins --
4. Morocco's War and Granada's Catastrophe, 1472-1497. The Allies and Rivals of Muhammad Ash-Shaykh Al-Wattas. Portugal's Gunpowder Mercantilism. Cannon Conquest: The Granadan War --
5. Furious Stalemate: The Mutual Exhaustion of Lisbon and Fez, 1497-1517. The Granadan Legacy: Rivalry, Weaponry, and Humanity. Floodtide and Ebb in Portuguese Morocco. Cannons and Containment: The Wattasid Makhzan. 6. Firearms and the First Saadians, 1508-1536. "King of the Sus": War and the Early Saadian State. The Struggle for Marrakech. Interlopers: Morocco on the Edge of Wider War. Birth of a Gunpowder State: The Battle of Bu Aqba --
7. Military Revolution: The Saadian Conquest of Morocco, 1536-1549. The Significance of Santa Cruz. Crisis: The Saadian "Civil War," 1541-1544. The First Fall of Fez --
8. War from All Directions, 1549-1573. Baiting the Sultan of Fishermen: The Saadian Ottoman War. Sharif Abdallah: Consolidation as Conquest. Dawla, Army, and the Struggle for Absolutism in Morocco --
9. End Game: The Battle of the Three Kings, 1574-1580. Mutawakkil and the Army's Andalusi Crisis. The Meaning of a Battle: Wadi-l-Makhazan. Al-Mansur and the End of the Hundred Years War --
10. Epilogue and Conclusion.
Series Title: History and warfare.
Responsibility: Weston F. Cook, Jr.

Abstract:

The Hundred Years War for Morocco reinterprets early modern Moroccan history, focusing on evolving modes of warfare as the decisive force that structured and propelled revolutionary change in sixteenth-century Morocco. Enfeebled by revolts, invasions, and civil war, Moroccan society at first lay open to conquest by European and Ottoman armies wielding gunpowder weapons.

Cook describes how Morocco overcame its tormentors through its own military revolution, a process that energized other domestic political, social, and religious transformations to produce a unified, independent Moroccan state. By centering his analysis on warfare and state-building, Cook's work departs from studies of the subject by other historians and offers important comparative insights on the "Military Revolution" thesis.

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