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Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans by Carina L. Johnson (review)

Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans by Carina L. Johnson... journal of world history, september 2013 With this organizing principle, Carlton is able to make a good case that by examining the reality of war and its effects on the individual and society, modern scholarship can better understand warfare. There are dozens of allusions to twentieth-century military figures in this, ranging from Chairman Mao to Norman Schwarzkopf. This transcendence infuses a vitality rarely seen in volumes on similar topics. Perhaps nowhere is this better understood than in the conclusion. Titled "The Hand of War," Carlton argues that "it is the legitimate killing of our fellow creatures that makes war special and decisive" (p. 261). The concluding point is made that during the early modern period, more than one million lives were lost directly and indirectly to war in the British Isles. Of these, 60 percent were non-English fighting in primarily English wars. The burden of warfare fell disproportionately upon Irish, Scottish, and Welsh soldiers, who were among the poorest in Europe. Given this, one is reminded of the soldier in Richard Steele's The Funeral, who, in response to the question of why he had enlisted, answered that he was "guilty of being poor" (p. 23). In sum, in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans by Carina L. Johnson (review)

Liang, Yuen-Gen
Journal of World History , Volume 24 (3) – Nov 12, 2013
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journal of world history, september 2013 With this organizing principle, Carlton is able to make a good case that by examining the reality of war and its effects on the individual and society, modern scholarship can better understand warfare. There are dozens of allusions to twentieth-century military figures in this, ranging from Chairman Mao to Norman Schwarzkopf. This transcendence infuses a vitality rarely seen in volumes on similar topics. Perhaps nowhere is this better understood than in the conclusion. Titled "The Hand of War," Carlton argues that "it is the legitimate killing of our fellow creatures that makes war special and decisive" (p. 261). The concluding point is made that during the early modern period, more than one million lives were lost directly and indirectly to war in the British Isles. Of these, 60 percent were non-English fighting in primarily English wars. The burden of warfare fell disproportionately upon Irish, Scottish, and Welsh soldiers, who were among the poorest in Europe. Given this, one is reminded of the soldier in Richard Steele's The Funeral, who, in response to the question of why he had enlisted, answered that he was "guilty of being poor" (p. 23). In sum, in

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