The dynamics of military revolution, 1300-2050
The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: 'military revolutions', which are driven by vast social and political...
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Cambridge University Press
UK ; New York 2001.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction Williamson Murray and MacGregor Knox2. 'As if a new sun had arisen': England's fourteenth-century RMA Clifford J. Rogers3. Forging the Western army in seventeenth-century France John A. Lynn4. Mass Politics and nationalism as military revolution: the French Revolution and after MacGregor Knox5. Surviving military revolution: the US Civil War Mark Grimsley6. The Prusso-German RMA, 1840-71 Dennis E. Showalter7. The battlefleet revolution, 1885-1914 Holger H. Herwig8. The First World War and the birth of modern warfare Jonathan B. A. Bailey9. May 1940: contingency and fragility of the German RMA Williamson Murray10. Conclusion: the future behind us Williamson Murray and MacGregor Knox.