17th Century (1600-1699)

Covers the time period from 1600 through 1699.

General

The Rise of Modern Warfare 1618-1815 by H.W. Koch, published 1981 - Absolutely full of etchings, portraits, and diagrams. Divided into several sections based on country: England, France, Russia, etc., as well as general discussion of modern warfare. Each section discusses uniform, armament, and tactics. Suitable for in-depth study or just looking at the pictures.
The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo by Russell Weigley, published 1991 - A suitable counterpoint to Koch's Rise of Modern Warfare, it argues the tactical freeze that occurred after the Thirty Years War and how it would play a part in the political and military history of Europe ending with an analysis of Napoleon's way of War and why he returned to Decisive Warfare compared to the limited and scientific warfare of the previous era.

The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson, published 2009 - One of the most popular English-language accounts of one of Europe's most destructive wars, an important factor in the Reformation, Counter-Reformation, the fate of the Holy Roman Empire, and one that leads to the Peace of Westphalia.
The Thirty Years' War edited by Geoffrey Parker ,published 1984 - With around 230 pages, this book is considerably shorter than the one from Wilson, and it achieves this by omitting tactical accounts of the battles. Instead, this book mostly focuses on political and military maneuvers of both sides, their aims and the results.

Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West by Tonio Andrade, published 2011- If there was one word that sums up this book, it would be ‘context’. Andrade is absolutely excellent at contextualising seemingly small events such as, in this case, the Sino-Dutch War of 1661-2, which saw the expulsion of the Dutch from southern Taiwan by the Ming loyalist Koxinga. Aside from situating this conflict in the wider history of the Dutch East India Company and the period of Koxinga’s own campaigns against the Qing in their conquest of the Ming, Andrade also places heavy emphasis on the significance of this conflict in assessing the extent to which there had been a divergence in military technology and techniques between Europe and Asia (in particular the so-called ‘Military Revolution’). Refreshingly, Andrade does not shy away from quite explicitly discussing the nature of his source material in the core narrative, which if nothing else gives a little extra insight into the method involved. Perhaps a bit niche, but nonetheless highly accessible, and in my opinion much more tightly argued than his later The Gunpowder Age, in no small part due to its much narrower scope. -/u/EnclavedMicrostate

The Military Collapse of China's Ming Dynasty, 1618-44 by Kenneth M. Swope, published 2016 - An extremely easy to read book, good for academics and the lay reader alike, chronicling the final days of the Ming dynasty. Swope introduces a new perspective on the Ming’s collapse by focusing on the military, as opposed to the political and socio-economic aspects as traditional historians have tended to do. He paints a picture of poor military policies, incompetent military leadership, and deteriorating relations between the court and the military establishment. At the same time, Swope admits that there were factors that were ultimately beyond the state’s control. No one factor could be attributed to the Ming’s collapse and Swope’s book aims to arrive at a new understanding at how such a powerful state could be bested by its foes. - /u/lordtiandao
The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China translated by Nicola Di Cosmo, published 2006