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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 agechanges 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 gunmakers 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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• Amazon Sales Rank: #357620 in Books
• Published on: 1995-05-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

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Summary of Reviews
Gary P. Cox in _History: Reviews of New Books_ says: "The essays are of a very high quality.... [A]n indispensable addition to any European collection of early modern or military history." The review in _War in History_ (4) by Robert I. Frost calls _The Military Revolution Debate_ an "excellent collection." The review by Maj. M. J. Petersen in _Airpower Journal_ calls it a "masterful collection" and notes that this book on the early modern Military Revolution can be "extremely useful in providing a framework to analyze the vision of war in the Information Age" [i.e. the "Revolution in Military Affairs."] John F. Guilmartin, Jr. (a contributor to the book), in a review essay on "The State of Military History in North America" calls it a "useful, and so far definitive volume on the subject."