Warfare on the Deccan Plateau, 1450–1600: A Military Revolution in Early Modern India?

Eaton, Richard M.; Wagoner, Philip B.

doi:10.1353/jwh.2014.0004

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“…Scholars approached the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal societal attitudes towards military technologies from a trans‐regional perspective (Ágoston, 2005a, 2005b; Bostan et al., 2000; Grant, 1999). In these studies, the emphasis was on the collaborative process that contributed to the development of firearms industries in Asia and the Middle East (Ágoston, 2014; Eaton and Wagoner, 2014). A representative example of this collaborative process, framed as technological dialogue instead of technological transfer, lies in the mutual appreciation that, on the one hand, Europeans had for Indian and Ottoman barrels, and on the other hand, Indian and Ottoman had for European mechanical parts (Aksan, 2002, pp.…”

Section: From the Three Gunpowder Empires To The Islamic Worldmentioning

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Migration and innovation in early modern Islamic societies. The case for firearms

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2023

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The objective of this article is to review the historiography of the relationship between migration and firearms technologies in the early modern Islamic World. By examining historiographical debates on the role of firearms in early modern Islamic societies, we will look at the place of migrants in the historical literature of firearms. During the colonial period, debates shifted from the alleged conservatism of Islamic societies regarding firearm technologies to their respective agencies in the diffusion of firearms in the early modern world. In this article, I will show that the historiography of firearm technologies in Islamdom exhibits a shift from essentialist arguments towards a history of technology transfers and the role of migrants in this process.

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Section: From the Three Gunpowder Empires To The Islamic Worldmentioning

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Migration and innovation in early modern Islamic societies. The case for firearms

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2023

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“…As discussed later, the military revolution remains a live issue for historians, especially its global implications (Agoston, 2014;Andrade, 2013Andrade, , 2016Clulow, 2014;Eaton and Wagoner, 2014;Lee, 2011aLee, , 2011bLee, , 2015Parrott, 2012). However, does it really matter for IR and social scientists more generally?…”

Section: The Military Revolution and European Expansion In Irmentioning

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Myths of military revolution: European expansion and Eurocentrism

Sharman

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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This article critiques explanations of the rise of the West in the early modern period premised on the thesis that military competition drove the development of gunpowder technology, new tactics, and the Westphalian state, innovations that enabled European trans-continental conquests. Even theories in International Relations and other fields that posit economic or social root causes of Western expansion often rely on this “military revolution” thesis as a crucial intervening variable. Yet, the factors that defined the military revolution in Europe were absent in European expeditions to Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and conventional accounts are often marred by Eurocentric biases. Given the insignificance of military innovations, Western expansion prior to the Industrial Revolution is best explained by Europeans’ ability to garner local support and allies, but especially by their deference to powerful non-Western polities.

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“…Men det är inte utifrån dessa infallsvinklar världshistorisk forskning analyserar krig. I stället behandlas militära strategier och teknologier som om dessa vore i avsaknad av mänskliga -och därmed könade -krafter (Romaniello, 2014;Eaton & Wagoner, 2014;Andrade, Kang & Cooper, 2014;Ágoston, 2014). Motsvarande kan sägas om den forskning som behandlar imperiers uppgång och fall -trots att imperierna lika tydligt har en motsvarande familjehistoria.…”

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Har världshistorien ett kön? Familj och släkt i världspolitikens mitt

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In recent decades, gender perspectives have been adopted and elaborated in almost all research areas of history, apart from world history. A review of articles published in the Journal of World History during 2001–13 demonstrates a general pattern of gender blindness in the journal, with a few important exceptions. Several explanations for why world history neglects gender history are examined in this article. First, it has been claimed that world history has a strong materialist tradition, while gender historians work mostly with cultural perspectives. However, the articles in the Journal of World History show that world history is not unfamiliar with cultural issues or methodologies. Secondly, gender historians emphasize the complexity of gender relations, which do not accord well with prevailing explanations within world history that stress macro theories and general patterns. Thirdly, gender historians concentrate their research on women in their own countries, and this is of minor interest to scholars of world history. Fourthly, the absence of women and gender relations in writing and teaching on world history reflects the fact that almost every society in world history has had a gender order that discriminates against women in favour of men. What is lacking is a consciousness of this order. This opinion is easy to agree with, but it does not suggest ways of improving the gender consciousness of world historians. Fifthly, one opinion stresses that most women in history have lived their lives in families, while families do not play an important role in world history. This opinion relies on a view of gender history as exclusively women’s history. In order to emphasize and clarify gender as a structuring principle at the general level of societies, this article ends with an overview of a similarity of significance in almost all early modern political regencies. Dynastic thinking was established all over the world, from principalities to empires, and was everywhere constructed in terms of imagined family and kinship relations with superior masculinity and subordinated femininity. How can research in world history overlook this world-wide structure?

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Warfare on the Deccan Plateau, 1450–1600: A Military Revolution in Early Modern India?

Cited by 35 publications

References 28 publications

Migration and innovation in early modern Islamic societies. The case for firearms

Migration and innovation in early modern Islamic societies. The case for firearms

Myths of military revolution: European expansion and Eurocentrism

Har världshistorien ett kön? Familj och släkt i världspolitikens mitt

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