Ideas of War
Johann Sommerville, 27 October 1988
The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800
by Geoffrey Parker.
Cambridge, 234 pp., £15, May 1988,0 521 32607 9 Show More
by Geoffrey Parker.
Cambridge, 234 pp., £15, May 1988,
War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime: 1618-1789
by M.S. Anderson.
Fontana, 239 pp., £4.95, May 1988,0 00 686053 2 Show More
by M.S. Anderson.
Fontana, 239 pp., £4.95, May 1988,
“... albeit not exclusively, an excursion into the history of ideas’. Professors Parker and Anderson discuss past wars, but rarely wander into the history of ideas. Parker’s book, which is scholarly, stimulating, lucid and very attractively presented, is concerned with technical changes in the conduct of war during the Early Modern period, and with ... ”
