A Military Revolution?

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Military Change

   • Jeremy Black

   Pages 1-34

3. The Limitations of Change, 1660–1760

   • Jeremy Black

   Pages 35-65

4. Military Change and European Society

   • Jeremy Black

   Pages 67-91

5. Conclusion

   • Jeremy Black

   Pages 93-96

6. Back Matter

   Pages 97-109

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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.

• absolutism
• Europe
• revolution
• society

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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