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Military Revolution Debate: Readings on the Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Clifford J Rogers
ISBN-13: 9780813320540, ISBN-10: 0813320542
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Westview Press
Date Published: May 1995
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Clifford J Rogers

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

Book Synopsis

The debate about the “Military Revolution” has been one of most controversial and exciting areas of discussion and research in the fields of early modern European history and military history. This bo

	Preface	1
	List of Credits
	The Military Revolution in History and Historiography
	Paradigms
1	The Military Revolution, 1560-1660	13
2	The 'Military Revolution, 1560-1660' - A Myth?	37
3	The Military Revolutions of the Hundred Years War	55
4	A Military Revolution? A 1660-1792 Perspective	95
	Aspects
5	Recalculating French Army Growth During the Grand Siecle, 1610-1715	117
6	The Military Revolution and the Professionalisation of the French Army Under the Ancien Regime	149
7	The trace italienne and the Growth of Armies: The French Case	169
8	Fortifications and the Military Revolution: The Gonzaga Experience, 1530-1630	201
9	Strategy and Tactics in the Thirty Years' War: The 'Military Revolution'	227
10	Tactics or Politics? "The Military Revolution" and the Hapsburg Hegemony, 1525-1648	253
11	"Money, Money, and Yet More Money!" Finance, the Fiscal-State, and the Military Revolution: Spain 1500-1650	273
12	The Military Revolution: Origins and First Tests Abroad	299
	Rejoinder
13	In Defense of The Military Revolution	337
	About the Book and Editor	367
	About the Contributors	369
	Index	371