The Military Revolution in Sixteenth-century Europe

The Military Revolution in Sixteenth-century Europe
Author: David Eltis
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Total Pages: 175
Release: 1995
Genre: Europe
ISBN: 9781850439608

This ground-breaking study represents a new twist in the already complicated debate on military change in the early modern period. Previous writers have for the most part defined a 'military revolution' focused on the seventeenth or even early eighteenth centuries. Eltis suggests that key developments in training, organization, tactics and siege warfare occurred in the sixteenth century and, taken together, these innovations constitute a military revolution, changing the face of war. In England, these changes came later than in the rest of Europe, and in Ireland later still. English writers, in their anxiety to spur their countrymen to adopt the new methods, produced some of the most useful manuals of sixteenth-century Europe. These, together with Italian, Spanish, French and German texts, form the main basis of David Eltis's study, allowing the ideas of contemporaries to be set alongside accounts of actual military conditions in explaining one of the turning points of world military development.

Henry VIII's Military Revolution

Henry VIII's Military Revolution
Author: James J. Raymond
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9780755622092

Abbreviations - vi -- Conventions - viii -- Acknowledgments - ix -- Introduction - 1 -- Chapter 1: Henrician Military Literature: Theory and Reality - 7 -- Chapter 2: Gunpowder Weapons - 25 -- Chapter 3: Training and Discipline - 55 -- Chapter 4: Infantry and Cavalry. A 'British Art of War'? - 80 -- Chapter 5: Levying the Army - 113 -- Chapter 6: A Permanent Establishment? - 136 -- Chapter 7: The Gunners - 163 -- Conclusion: The Military Revolution and Tudor England - 180 -- Notes - 197 -- Bibliography - 287 -- Index - 319.

Henry VIII's Military Revolution

Henry VIII's Military Revolution
Author: James Raymond
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2007-06-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857713213

The reign of Henry VIII saw a renascent militarism encapture England. Memories of great victories over the French remained fresh and resplendent in the psyche and pageantry of early-Tudor England, and the pursuit of glory on the battlefield and of due recognition of England as a major player in European power politics were the identifying features of Henry's reign. In an exciting new work, James Raymond traces the development of Henry's military establishment within the context of the wider European military revolution. Making use of extensive new research into the military literature of the mid-Tudor period, 'Henry VIII's Military Revolution' is able to root firmly the military theories of the time within the solid realities of Henry's army. Raymond pays particular attention to the rise of professionalism in the English military, and its adaptation to new technologies and ideas. In this vein, the career of Sir Christopher Morris, Henry's first professional artilleryman, is explored for the first time, casting light on the experience of day-to-day life in the English army of mid-Tudor England, and challenging the established view on the development of artillery both in England and in Europe. "Henry VIII's Military Revolution" develops and expands the argument that the English Army was up-to-date with its European contemporaries, and moves the English experience away from the periphery towards the centre of the debate on the European military revolution. The militarism of Henry VIII's England is seen through new eyes in this fascinating new work.

The Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe

The Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Author: Frank Jacob
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2016-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137539186

This book challenges the premise that a ‘military revolution’ prompted the major European powers to enter into an era of global hegemony during the early modern period, and suggests that this theory is not supported if we closely examine contemporary historical events. The conquests of Mexico and Peru, arguably the two most important colonial acquisitions by a European power during that era, were accomplished without the technology or tactics that are usually associated with the ‘military revolution’. On the other hand, Japan, Korea, some Indian states and the Ottoman Empire implemented military reforms, both tactical and technological, that are commonly associated with what was considered an exclusively Western approach to warfare. By comparing case studies of the Western and the non-Western world, Frank Jacob and Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo show that the concept of such a ‘military revolution’ is a myth perpetuated by a Eurocentric perspective on history.

The Military Revolution Debate

The Military Revolution Debate
Author: Clifford J Rogers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 659
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429975899

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.

The Medieval Military Revolution

The Medieval Military Revolution
Author: Andrew Ayton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1995
Genre: Military art and science
ISBN: 9780755623112

"War was a major engine of modern state-development in the medieval and early modern periods throughout Europe. While the idea of a military revolution - the creation of modern armies and the centralized state - has been traditionally seen as a 17th-century development, more recent scholarship has placed it in the 16th century and before. The contributors to this book offer perspectives on the early modern period."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

The Military Revolution

The Military Revolution
Author: Geoffrey Parker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1996-04-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521479585

This is a new edition of Geoffrey Parker's much-admired illustrated account of how the West, so small and so deficient in natural resources in 1500, had by 1800 come to control over one-third of the world. Parker argues that the rapid development of military practice in the West constituted a 'military revolution' which gave Westerners an insurmountable advantage over the peoples of other continents. This edition incorporates new material, including a substantial 'Afterword' which summarises the debate which developed after the book's first publication.