Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050

Zusammenfassung By providing both a conceptual framework and a historical context for thinking about revolutionary changes in military affairs! The Dynamics of Military Revolution establishes a baseline for understanding the patterns of change! innovation! and adaptation that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Williamson Murray and MacGregor Knox; 2. 'As if a new sun had arisen': England's fourteenth-century RMA Clifford J. Rogers; 3. Forging the Western army in seventeenth-century France John A. Lynn; 4. Mass politics and nationalism as military revolution: the French Revolution and after MacGregor Knox; 5. Surviving military revolution: the US Civil War Mark Grimsley; 6. The Prusso-German RMA, 1840-71 Dennis E. Showalter; 7. The battlefleet revolution, 1885-1914 Holger H. Herwig; 8. The First World War and the birth of modern warfare Jonathan B. A. Bailey; 9. May 1940: contingency and fragility of the German RMA Williamson Murray; 10. Conclusion: the future behind us Williamson Murray and MacGregor Knox.

Product details

• Assisted by: MacGregor Knox (Editor), Knox MacGregor (Editor), Williamson Murray (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2001
• EAN: 9780521800792
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80079-2
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous