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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 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Contents 8 Preface 10 List of Credits 12 The Military Revolution in History and Historiography 14 Paradigms 24 Chapter 1: The Military Revolution, 1560-1660 26 Chapter 2: The ‘Military Revolution, 1560-1660’— A Myth? 50 Chapter 3: The Military Revolutions of the Hundred Years War 68 Chapter 4: A Military Revolution? A 1660-1792 Perspective 108 Aspects 128 Chapter 5: Recalculating French Army Growth During the Grand Siècle 1610-1715 130 Chapter 6: The Military Revolution and the Professionalisation of the French Army Under the Ancien Régime 162 Chapter 7: The trace italienne and the Growth of Armies: The French Case 182 Chapter 8: Fortifications and the Military Revolution: The Gonzaga Experience, 1530-1630 214 Chapter 9: Strategy and Tactics in the Thirty Years’ War: The ‘Military Revolution,’ 240 Chapter 10: Tactics or Politics? “The Military Revolution” and the Hapsburg Hegemony, 1525-1648 266 Chapter 11: “Money, Money, and Yet More Money!” Finance, the Fiscal-State, and the Military Revolution: Spain 1500-1650 286 Chapter 12: The Military Revolution: Origins and First Tests Abroad 312 Rejoinder 348 Chapter 13: In Defense of The Military Revolution 350 About the Book and Editor 380 About the Contributors 382 Index 384 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 age - changes 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 gunmaker's 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 Massive changes in European military techniques and technologies took place between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the industrial age. This collection of articles on those changes includes new essays by historians such as Geoffrey Parker, Jeremy Black and I.A.A. Thompson. IT IS A HISTORICAL commonplace that major revolutions in military techniques have usually been attended with widely ramifying consequences. Edited By Clifford J. Rogers. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.