The Military Revolution Debate

by J Rogers,Clifford

• ISBN13: 9780813320540
• ISBN10: 0813320542
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-05-31
• Publisher: Routledge

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 agechanges 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 Debatewill be required reading for anyone interested in what is undoubtedly one of the hottest areas in military history today.

Author Biography

Clifford J. Rogers is an Olin Fellow in Military and Strategic History at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
List of Credits	xi
The Military Revolution in History and Historiography	1	(12)
Clifford J. Rogers
Paradigms
The Military Revolution, 1560-1660	13	(24)
Michael Roberts
The `Military Revolution, 1560-1660'-A Myth?	37	(18)
Geoffrey Parker
The Military Revolutions of the Hundred Years War	55	(40)
Clifford J. Rogers
A Military Revolution? A 1660-1792 Perspective	95	(22)
Jeremy Black
Aspects
Recalculating French Army Growth During the Grand Siecle, 1610-1715	117	(32)
John A. Lynn
The Military Revolution and the Professionalisation of the French Army Under the Ancient Regime	149	(20)
Colin Jones
The trace italienne and the Growth of Armies: The French Case	169	(32)
John A. Lynn
Fortifications and the Military Revolution: The Gonzaga Experience, 1530-1630	201	(26)
Thomas F. Arnold
Strategy and Tactics in the Thirty Years' War: The `Military Revolution'	227	(26)
David A. Parrott
Tactics or Politics? ``The Military Revolution'' and the Hapsburg Hegemony, 1525-1648	253	(20)
Simon Adams
``Money, Money, and Yet More Money!'' Finance, the Fiscal-State, and the Military Revolution: Spain 1500-1650	273	(26)
I.A.A. Thompson
The Military Revolution: Origins and First Tests Abroad	299	(38)
John F. Guilmartin Jr.
Rejoinder
In Defense of The Military Revolution	337	(30)
Geoffrey Parker
About the Book and Editor	367	(2)
About the Contributors	369	(2)
Index	371