The Military Revolution
Subtitle: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 29, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521376808
Subjects: World history; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Military - General; History; History - Military / War; History: World; Europe; History / World; World - General
First sentence: 'We must confesse,' wrote Sir Roger Williams in his Briefe discourse of Warre in 1590, 'Alexander, Caesar, Scipio, and Haniball, to be the worthiest and famoust warriors that ever were; notwithstanding, assure your selfe, ... they would neuer have ... conquered Countries so easilie, had they been fortified as Germanie, France, and the Low Countries, with others, have been since their daies.'