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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Military Revolution : Military Innovation And The Rise Of The West 1500-1800 by Geoffrey Parker
This is a new edition of Geoffrey Parkers much-admired illustrated account of how the West, so small and so deficient in natural resources in 1500, had by 1800 come to control over one-third of the world. Parker argues that the rapid development of military practice in the West constituted a military revolution which gave Westerners an insurmountable advantage over the peoples of other continents. This edition incorporates new material, including a substantial Afterword which summarises the debate which developed after the books first publication.show more