The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 by Geoffrey Parker

The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 Geoffrey Parker ebook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Page: 285
ISBN: 9780521479585
Format: pdf

Feb 21, 2011 - West Germanic invaders from Jutland and southern Denmark: the Angles (whose name is the source of the words England and English), Saxons, and Jutes, began populating the British Isles in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. Feb 25, 2014 - With the marginal revolution transforming the basis of economic models from the labor theory of value to the utility of goods, Neoclassical economics sought to erect a positive, mathematical, and scientifically grounded field, that became known as "economics." After the . [12] Richard Brzezinski, The Army of Gustavus Adolphus (Oxford, 1993), p.55. Jan 21, 2009 - The novel became the dominant form of Western literature in the 19th cent., which produced many works that are considered milestones in the development of the form. Oct 5, 2006 - Parker's third factor represents a remarkable continuity in the western military tradition, or rather, in military theory. I suggest to compile a list of as many as possible of really great (but not "the best" - since this is really subjective and impossible to establish, too many factors would have to be examined) military leaders, conquerors and commanders in the history of warfare . The spice trade had become less profitable, while the military involvement in Java had grown increasingly costly-this at least is the broad outline of events leading to one of the largest commercial collapses in history. Finding the typically enormous means to pay for this expensive strategy enhanced the power of the state in the West. Oct 26, 2008 - They used some forms of herbal antiseptics and painkillers such as opium, but in the Roman Empire as elsewhere in the world before late nineteenth century West, surgery was a painful and dangerous undertaking. Feb 24, 2014 - “The Father of Modern Warfare and the Military Revolution”. Aug 16, 2012 - While remaining conversant with Roman civilisation and its economy, including serving in the Roman military, they retained political independence. Oct 21, 2013 - Tuanku Tambusai and irony Padri War It can not be denied that the war had left the memories of heroic Padri well as traumatic to the people in the three regions: West Sumatra, North Sumatra (Tapanuli and vicinity), and Riau (Rokan and vicinity). He used the few colonial forces under his command and those he would later acquire by innovation and taking from the enemy, to wage a long campaign against the larger allied colonial forces sent after him. The major political and military confrontations of the 20th and 21st centuries have inspired novelists. Some Germanic troops served in Britannia under the Romans. History has played host to many great military commanders and generals; brilliant men who have steered the course of history through a combination of brilliant tactics, innovations, and sheer boldness. The English Novel A lesser figure, William Dean Howells, realistically portrayed a marriage and divorce in A Modern Instance (1882) and the newly rich classes in The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885). Typically, Vegetius's compendium of Roman military practice, _Concerning Military Matters_, compiled at the end of the fourth century rested on Parker's fifth factor: innovation--adopting new technology and expanding armies and navies. The only hospitals constructed by the Roman government were for the military." Urban growth during the High Middle Ages (AD 1000-1300), the rise of towns and the appearance of the rat brought to Europe a disease known in China for millennia. Mercantilism was not just an economic theory but also a political movement, advocating the use of the state's military power to ensure local markets and supply sources were protected. [11] Geoffrey Parker, Military Innovation and the Rise of the West: 1500 – 1800 (Cambridge, 1996), p.23.