The Military Revolution Debate: Readings On The Military Transformation Of Early Modern Europe [Hardcover]

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 AHistory and Warfare -- Preface -- Credits -- The Military Revolution in History and Historiography -- Paradigms -- The Military Revolution, 1560-1660 -- The `Military Revolution, 1560-1660-A Myth? -- The Military Revolutions of the Hundred Years War -- A Military Revolution? A1660-1792 Perspective -- Aspects -- Recalculating French Army Growth During the Grand Siede, 1610-1715 -- The Military Revolution and the Professionalisation of the French Army Under the Ancien Regime -- The trace italienne and the Growth of Armies: The French Case -- Fortifications and the Military Revolution: The Gonzaga Experience, 1530-1630 -- Strategy and Tactics in the Thirty Years' War: The `Military Revolution -- Tactics or Politics? The Military Revolution ` and the Hapsburg Hegemony, 1525-1648 -- Money, Money, and Yet More Money! Finance, the Fiscal-State, and the Military Revolution: Spain 1500-1650 -- The Military Revolution: Origins and First Tests Abroad -- Rejoinder -- In Defense of The Military Revolution -- About the Book and Editor -- About the ContributorsMassive changes in European military techniques and technologies took place between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the industrial age. This collection of articles on those changes includes new essays by historians such as Geoffrey Parker, Jeremy Black and I.A.A. Thompson.Clifford J. Rogers is an Olin Fellow in Military and Strategic History at Yale University.USCopyright ? 1995 Taylor & Francis