Description
| Product ID: | 9781472827630 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Title: | Forts |
| Subtitle: | An illustrated history of building for defence |
| Authors: | Author: Jeremy Black, The National Archives |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Architecture: castles and fortifications, Castles & fortifications, History of architecture, Historical maps and atlases, Military history, History of architecture, Historical maps & atlases, Military history, c 500 CE to c 1000 CE, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 1500 to c 1600, c 1600 to c 1700, c 1700 to c 1800, c 1800 to c 1900, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A fascinating, illustrated history of forts and castles from their earliest origins to the 20th century. Ever since humans began to live together in settlements they have felt the need to organize some kind of defense against potentially hostile neighbors. Many of the earliest city states were built as walled towns, and during the medieval era, stone castles were built both as symbols of the defenders'' strength and as protection against potential attack. The advent of cannon prompted fortifications to become lower, denser, and more complex, and the forts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries could appear like snowflakes in their complexity and beautiful geometry. Without forts, the history of America could have taken a very different course, pirates could have sailed the seas unchecked, and Britain itself could have been successfully invaded. |
| Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-09-20 |
