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In this radical reassessment, Jeremy Black challenges many of the established assumptions about the so-called Military Revolution of 1560- 1660. He argues that it is far from clear that a military revolution did occur during this period. Indeed there is more evidence to suggest that the description could be applied more accurately to the following hundred years. This book also re-examines the relationship between military strength and domestic stability. Rather than seeing the latter as the consequence of the former, Dr Black argues that it makes more sense to see the former as a result of the latter.
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Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK. He is an authority on early modern British and continental European history, with special interest in international relations, military history, the press, and historical atlases. A prolific historian, he is the author of over sixty books in addition to over a dozen edited volumes. He edits the following series for Palgrave Macmillan: British Studies, Social History in Perspective, European History in Perspective and Palgrave Essential Histories.
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Book Title: A Military Revolution?
Book Subtitle: Military Change and European Society 1550–1800
Authors: Jeremy Black
Series Title: Studies in European History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11361-3
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Jeremy Black 1991
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 124
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave