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

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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. 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