The Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe: A Revision [1 ed.] 9781137539182, 2016942084

This book challenges the premise that a ‘military revolution’ prompted the major European powers to enter into an era of

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The Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe: A Revision [1 ed.]
9781137539182, 2016942084

This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state

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To my wife, Betty, who means so much to me and our three sons, Jon, Peter and Chris.

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This book brings together, for the first time, the classic articles that began and have shaped the debate about the Mili

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Can Christian clergy - supposedly men of peace - also be warriors? In this lively and compelling history D.S. Chambers e

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What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of

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In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the

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Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the

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This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in t

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