The military revolution debate : readings on the military transformation of early modern Europe / edited by Clifford J. Rogers
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- Boulder : Westview Press, 1995.
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- 1 online resource (xi, 387 pages).
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- Rogers, Clifford J.
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- The military revolution, 1560-1660 / Michael Roberts -- The 'military revolution, 1560-1660' : a myth? / Geoffrey Parker -- The military revolutions of the Hundred Years War / Clifford J. Rogers -- A military revolution? : a 1660-1792 perspective / Jeremy Black -- Recalculating French army growth during the Grand Siècle, 1610-1715 / John A. Lynn -- The military revolution and the professionalisation of the French army under the ancien régime / Colin Jones -- The trace italienne and the growth of armies : the French case / John A. Lynn -- Fortifications and the military revolution : the Gonzaga experience, 1530-1630 / Thomas F. Arnold -- Strategy and tactics in the Thirty Years' War : the 'military revolution' / David A. Parrott -- Tactics or politics? : "the military revolution" and the Hapsburg hegemony, 1525-1648 / Simon Adams -- "Money, money, and yet more money!" : finance, the fiscal-state, and the military revolution : Spain 1500-1650 / I.A.A. Thompson -- The military revolution : origins and first tests abroad / John F. Guilmartin, Jr.
- Summary
- The debate about the "Military Revolution" has been one of the most controversial and exciting areas of discussion and research in the fields of early modern European history and military history. Scholars have long sought to explain the massive changes in European military techniques and technologies that took place between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the industrial age - changes that transformed the armies and navies of the West into the most powerful war-making entities the world had ever known. Historians have disagreed about and vigorously debated the importance of these changes for European politics, for the process of state formation, for the rise of the West, and for warfare itself. This book brings together, for the first time, the classic articles that began and have shaped this debate, adding important new essays by eminent historians of early modern Europe to further this important scholarly interchange. The contributors consider topics ranging from the battlefield to the gunmaker's workshop, from England to India, and from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The Military Revolution Debate will be required reading for anyone interested in what is undoubtedly one of the hottest areas in military history today.
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- 9780429975899 ebook
0429975899
0813320534 (alk. paper)
0813320542 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813346588 (electronic bk.)
0813346584 (electronic bk.)
9780813320533 (alk. paper)
9780813320540 (pbk. ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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