The Military Revolution
The Military Revolution
$37.00
USDThis is a new edition of Geoffrey Parker's much-admired illustrated account of how the West, so small and so deficient in natural resources in 1500, had by 1800 come to control over one-third of the world. Parker argues that the rapid development of military practice in the West constituted a 'military revolution' which gave Westerners an insurmountable advantage over the peoples of other continents. This edition incorporates new material, including a substantial 'Afterword' which summarises the debate which developed after the book's first publication.
- A new edition of the standard account of military development in Europe during the 'early modern' period
- Fully updated with a new chapter on the debate which has raged after the publication of the first edition
- Extensively illustrated and engagingly written, the book will be invaluable for students as well as appealing to a wide general readership
Reviews & endorsements
"...this is a genuinely admirable book, and every student of military history, whatever his specialization, ought to read it cover to cover....Re-reading Parker's Military Revolution I am again struck by its brilliance, range and craft; by ambition fulfilled....A second, updated edition of Geoffrey Parker's The Military Revolution deserves a warm and thoughtful welcome by all historians. An author of rare linguistic range and command of primary sources, his masterful ability to construct comparisons and unearth new data has compelled many who would not call themselves military historians to take the "Military Revolution" paradigm (and military history) seriously...a seminal work." The Journal of Military History
"...this is a generally admirable book, and every student of military history, whatever his specialization, ought to read it cover to cover. Nobody has succeeded as well as parker in portraying the growth of European military power in the Early Modern Epoch." Thomas M. Barker, The Journal of Military History
"Re-reading Parker's Military Revolution I am again struck by its brilliance, range and craft; by ambition fulfilled....I am more than impressed by the insights, scope and scholarship of Parker's book; it is a work that has inspired much of my interest in the subject." Jeremy Black, The Journal of Military History
"I strongly commend this book to all historians. I can only wish others, reading The Military Revolution for the first time, will find it as stimulating as I found Geoffrey Parker's works when I first encountered them." Weston F. Cook, Jr., The Journal of Military History
Product details
May 1996Paperback
9780521479585
288 pages
249 × 176 × 17 mm
0.59kg
39 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The military revolution revisited
- 2. Supplying war
- 3. Victory at sea
- 4. The 'military revolution' abroad
- 5. Beyond the revolution
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliographical guide
- Index.
