""War and Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries" by Myron P. Gutmann is one of those academic studies. It is most definitely not a military history book. I am sure that you could successfully wargame any campaign in North West Europe in the late seventeenth century without ever reading it.
But it does include a host of invaluable information about 17th century campaigning and warfare which has never its way to the more general military history books for the period. And a great deal of that information helps provide answers to those questions which a 17th Century general may well have just simply known, but which have been lost to us a long time ago.
Published in 1980, by Princeton University Press, "War and Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries" is not hard to find on the various second hand online book sites. I picked mine up from ABE Books for around £10.00 GBP
It focuses on the region between Liège and Maastricht along the banks of the Meuse River known as the Basse-Meuse. The region was a magnet for armies in the 17th Century. In addition to the ‘Spanish Road', the important military corridor through which Spanish armies marched from Italy and Southern Germany to the Low Countries, the Basse-Meuse was strategically central to the designs of Dutch Stadtholders and French Kings. The passage and visitation of armies into the region was also encouraged by a complex sovereignty and internal divisions among the leading noble families of the Basse-Meuse. The principality of Liège was the dominant sovereign of the area, being a significant ecclesiastical principality not incorporated to the Dutch Republic or the Spanish Netherlands. Formally a neutral player during international disputes, the position of the principality became increasingly complicated and vulnerable in the late 17th Century, as France and Holland both exerted influence and attempted dominance in the area…"
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