Beyond the Military Revolution
Beyond the Military Revolution

Author: Jeremy Black

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1350307734

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The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history. By placing 17th century warfare in a global context, Black challenges conventional chronologies and permits a reappraisal of the debate over what has been seen as the Military Revolution of the early-modern period. The book discusses war with regard to strategic cultures, assesses military capability in terms of tasks and challenges faced and attaches styles of warfare to their social and political contexts. Genuinely global in range, this up-to-date and wide-ranging account provides fresh historiographical insights into this crucial period in world history.

Beyond the Military Revolution
Beyond the Military Revolution

Author: Jeremy Black

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0230344151

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The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history. By placing 17th century warfare in a global context, Black challenges conventional chronologies and permits a reappraisal of the debate over what has been seen as the Military Revolution of the early-modern period. The book discusses war with regard to strategic cultures, assesses military capability in terms of tasks and challenges faced and attaches styles of warfare to their social and political contexts. Genuinely global in range, this up-to-date and wide-ranging account provides fresh historiographical insights into this crucial period in world history.

The Military Revolution
The Military Revolution

Author: Geoffrey Parker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-09-29

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780521376808

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Well before the Industrial Revolution, Europe developed the superior military potential and expertise that enabled her to dominate the world for the next two centuries. In this attractively illustrated and updated edition, Geoffrey Parker discusses the major changes in the military practice of the West during this time period--establishment of bigger armies, creation of superior warships, the role of firearms--and argues that these major changes amounted to a "military revolution" that gave Westerners a decided advantage over people of other continents. A new chapter addresses the controversies engendered by the previous edition.

The Military Revolution Debate
The Military Revolution Debate

Author: Clifford J Rogers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 659

ISBN-13: 0429975899

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This book brings together, for the first time, the classic articles that began and have shaped the debate about the Military Revolution in early modern Europe, adding important new essays by eminent historians of early modern Europe to further this important scholarly interchange.