A Military Revolution?
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : MacGregor Knox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521800792
This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.
Author : MacGregor Knox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1107393809
The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: 'military revolutions', which are driven by vast social and political changes; and 'revolutions in military affairs', which military institutions have directed, although usually with great difficulty and ambiguous results. By providing both a conceptual framework and a historical context for thinking about revolutionary changes in military affairs, the work establishes a baseline for understanding the patterns of change, innovation, and adaptation that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century - beginning with Edward III's revolutionary changes in medieval warfare, through the development of modern Western military institutions in seventeenth-century France, to the cataclysmic changes of the First World War and the German Blitzkrieg victories of 1940. This history provides a guide for thinking about military revolutions in the coming century, which are as inevitable as they are difficult to predict.
Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 1989-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521376808
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.
Author : Clifford J Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0429975899
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.
Author : Keith L. Shimko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 052111151X
This book is a comprehensive study of the Iraq Wars in the context of the revolution in military affairs debate.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1350307734
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.
Author : Olaf van Nimwegen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1843835754
The Dutch army is central to all discussions about the tactical, strategic and organisational military revolution of the early modern period, but this is the first substantial work on the subject in English. This book addresses the changes that were effected in the tactics and organisation of the Dutch armed forces between 1588 and 1688. It shows how in the first decades of this period the Dutch army was transformed from an unreliable band of mercenaries into a disciplined force that could hold its own against the might of Spain. Under the leadership of Maurits of Nassau and his cousin Willem Lodewijk a tactical revolution was achieved that had a profound impact on battle. However, the Dutch army's organisational structure remained unchanged and the Dutch Republic continued to rely on mercenaries and military entrepreneurs. It was not until the latter half of the seventeenth century that the Dutch, under William III of Orange, Captain-General of the Union, introduced revolutionary changes in military organisation and established an efficient standing army. This army withstood attacks by Louis XIV and the Dutch reforms were copied by the English. OLAF VAN NIMWEGEN has held a number of research posts in the Netherlands. He has an extensive publication record in Dutch and has published several articles on the Dutch army in English. In 2004 he was awarded the Schouwenburg Prize for an outstanding publication on Dutch military history for De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden als grote mogendheid The Republic of the United Netherlands as a great power], about the role and position of the Dutch Republic in the European system of states in the period 1713 to 1756.
Author : Brian Downing
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691024752
To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of constitutional arrangements distinguished Western Europe from other parts of the world and predisposed it toward liberal democracy. He then looks at how medieval constitutionalism was affected by the "military revolution" of the early modern era--the shift from small, decentralized feudal levies to large standing armies. Downing won the American Political Science Association's Gabriel Almond Award for the dissertation on which this book was based.
Author : David Parrott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521514835
This book offers a substantial reconsideration of early modern warfare and its relationship to the power of the state.