The Military Revolution Debate: Readings on the Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe

✍ Scribed by Clifford J. Rogers

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 400
Series: History and Warfare
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
List of Credits
The Military Revolution in History and Historiography
Paradigms
Chapter 1: The Military Revolution, 1560-1660
Chapter 2: The ‘Military Revolution, 1560-1660’— A Myth?
Chapter 3: The Military Revolutions of the Hundred Years War
Chapter 4: A Military Revolution? A 1660-1792 Perspective
Aspects
Chapter 5: Recalculating French Army Growth During the Grand Siècle 1610-1715
Chapter 6: The Military Revolution and the Professionalisation of the French Army Under the Ancien Régime
Chapter 7: The trace italienne and the Growth of Armies: The French Case
Chapter 8: Fortifications and the Military Revolution: The Gonzaga Experience, 1530-1630
Chapter 9: Strategy and Tactics in the Thirty Years’ War: The ‘Military Revolution,’
Chapter 10: Tactics or Politics? “The Military Revolution” and the Hapsburg Hegemony, 1525-1648
Chapter 11: “Money, Money, and Yet More Money!” Finance, the Fiscal-State, and the Military Revolution: Spain 1500-1650
Chapter 12: The Military Revolution: Origins and First Tests Abroad
Rejoinder
Chapter 13: In Defense of The Military Revolution
About the Book and Editor
About the Contributors
Index

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