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Article: European Warfare: 1660-1815.(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By Jeremy Black. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 276. $30.00.)
This book is an important contribution to our understanding of "how the West, initially so small and deficient in most natural resources, became able to compensate for what it lacked through superior military and naval power." Michael Robert's seminal 1956 lecture, "The Military Revolution, 1560-1660:" began to answer this question by highlighting the land war&re initiatives of Gustavus Adolfus and Maurice of Nassau. Subsequent work by Geoffrey Parker and Clifford Rogers identified even earlier beginnings of the military revolution, during the early sixteenth-century Italian ...
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