Coffee and Clausewitz

Episode 4: Atlantic Europe and Financial institutions

In this episode we delve into the effects of gunpowder on non-Europeans in the Americas. We also examining some of the institutions underpinning overseas British overseas adventurism in the form of the credit mechanisms such as the Bank of England from 1694. 

Episode 3: Black Powder series, Naval Warfare and Institutional Development in Early Modern Europe

In this episode, we discuss the age of sail and the impact of gunpowder on commerce, naval warfare and their supporting institutions. Of note are the lines of continuum seen in both the tactical and institutional realms as European monarchs and states use navies for support of their increasingly complex commercial imperatives. 
 

Black powder series, Episode 2- Gunpowder and Landwarfare in Europe

In this episode, we explore three case studies concerning the impacts of cannon and gunpowder on tactical and operational dynamics in Early-Modern European warfare. The aim is to tease out some themes of continuity and change brought about by developments in technology. 
 

Black powder series, Episode 1- Introduction of gunpowder into European Warfare, c. 15th-17th Centuries……. An Introduction

The expense of gunpowder weapons focussed the means of making effective warfare in the hands of fewer and fewer actors. The expense of manufacture and administration of the weapons could be borne only by the wealthiest of monarchs and magnates.
In this introduction we will be discussing a couple of the wider debates regarding the impact of gunpowder and cannon within wider political and economic currents of, primarily, the early Sixteenth-Century.