The Military Revolution Debate: Readings On The Military Transformation Of Early Modern Europe (History and Warfare) - Hardcover

Rogers, Clifford J

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9780813320533: The Military Revolution Debate: Readings On The Military Transformation Of Early Modern Europe (History and Warfare)

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ISBN 10: 0813320534 ISBN 13: 9780813320533

Publisher: Westview Press, 1995

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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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About the Author

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

Review

Assemble[s] the best military historians of the period...many writing at the top of their form -- Eliot Cohen, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Excellent collection -- Robert I. Frost, WAR IN HISTORY

Masterful collection...extremely useful...I strongly advise anyone interested in today's [RMA] debate to carefully read [it]. -- Maj. M. J. Peterson (USAF), AIRPOWER HISTORY

Very high quality...an indispensable addition to any European collection of early modern or military history. -- Gary P. Cox, HISTORY: REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS

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