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Who did Geoffrey Parker (historian) work for from 1986 to 1993?
Geoffrey Parker ( historian ) Noel Geoffrey Parker ( born Nottingham , United Kingdom , 25 December 1943 ) is an English historian specialising in the history of Western Europe , Spain , and warfare during the early modern era . His best known book is The Military Revolution : Military Innovation and the Rise of the West , 1500–1800 , first published by Cambridge University Press in 1988 . He holds his BA , MA , PhD , and LittD degrees from Cambridge University where he studied under the historian Sir John Elliott . Parker has taught at the University of Illinois , the University of St Andrews , and Yale University . He is currently the Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at the Ohio State University . Parker was a consultant and main contributor on the BBC series , Armada : 12 Days to Save England . Honours . Parker is a Fellow of the British Academy ( FBA ) . He is a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( FRSE ) . In 2014 , Parker was awarded the British Academy Medal for his book Global Crisis : War , Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century . Amongst the foreign honours he holds , he is a member of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise and was granted the Great Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by the Spanish government . He has received honorary doctorates from the Catholic University of Brussels ( Belgium ) and the University of Burgos ( Spain ) . He is also a corresponding member of the Spanish Real Academia de la Historia ( since 1987 ) , and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2005 . In 2012 he was awarded the Dr . A . H . Heineken Prize for History by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for his outstanding scholarship on the social , political and military history of Europe between 1500 and 1650 , in particular Spain , Philip II , and the Dutch Revolt ; for his contribution to military history in general ; and for his research on the role of climate in world history . In 1999 , he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement given by the Society for Military History . Major works . - Guide to the Archives of the Spanish Institutions in or concerned with the Netherlands ( 1556–1706 ) . Brussels , 1971 . ( Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique , numéro spécial 3 ) . - The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road , 1567–1659 : The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries Wars . Cambridge University Press , 1972 ( 2nd ed . 2004 ) . - Military Revolution , 1560–1660 : A Myth ? The Journal of Modern History 48 , no . 2 ( June 1976 ) : 195–214 . - The Dutch Revolt . London : Allen Lane , 1977 . - ( with Angela Parker ) European Soldiers , 1550–1650 . Cambridge University Press , 1977 . - Philip II . Boston : Little , Brown , 1978 . - ( Joint editor ) The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century . London : Routledge , 1978 ( 2nd ed . 1997 ) . - Europe in Crisis , 1598–1648 . Cornell University Press , 1979 ( 2nd ed . 2001 ) . - Spain and the Netherlands : Ten Studies . Short Hills : Enslow Publishers , 1979 . - ( Editor ) The Thirty Years War . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1984 . - Western Geopolitical Thought in the Twentieth Century . London : Croom Helm , 1985 . - ( With Colin Martin ) The Spanish Armada . New York : W.W . Norton , 1988 . - Why the Armada Failed . The Quarterly Journal of Military History 1 , no . 1 ( Autumn 1988 ) . - Spain and the Netherlands , 1559–1659 . Ten Studies , 2nd ed . Fontana , 1990 . - ( Joint editor ) The Times History of the World , 3rd ed . London , 1995 . - The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare : The Triumph of the West . Cambridge University Press , 1995 ( rev . 2008 ) - The Military Revolution : Military Innovation and the Rise of the West , 1500–1800 . Cambridge University Press , 1988 ( rev . ed . 1996 ) . - ( co-written with Robert Cowley ) The Readers Companion to Military History . Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1996 . - The Grand Strategy of Philip II . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1998 . - Empire , War and Faith in Early Modern Europe . London : Allen Lane , 2002 . - ( Editor ) The Cambridge History of Warfare . New York , Cambridge University Press , 2005 ( rev . ed . 2020 ) - Felipe II : La biografía definitiva . Barcelona : Editorial Planeta , 2010 . - Global Crisis : War , Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2013 . - Imprudent King : A New Life of Philip II . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2014 . - Emperor : A New Life of Charles V . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2019 .