The dynamics of military revolution, 1300-2050

  • Creator: edited by MacGregor Knox, Williamson Murray.

This study aims to bridge a gap in the literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries - military revolutions and revolutions in military affairs.

  • OCLC #: 45393690
  • ISBN #:
    • 052180079X
    • 9780521800792
  • Call #: D25.D96 2001
  • Publisher: Cambridge, UK ;New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Physical Description: xiv, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Contents:
    • Thinking about revolutions in warfare / Williamson Murray and MacGregor Knox
    • "As if a new sun had arisen": England's fourteenth-century RMA / Clifford J. Rogers
    • Forging the Western army in seventeenth-century France / John A. Lynn
    • Mass politics and nationalism as military revolution: the French Revolution and after / MacGregor Knox
    • Surviving military revolution: the U.S. Civil War / Mark Grimsley
    • The Prusso-German RMA, 1840-1871 / Dennis E. Showalter
    • The battlefleet revolution, 1885-1914 / Holger H. Herwig
    • The First World War and the birth of modern warfare / Jonathan B.A. Bailey
    • May 1940: contingency and fragility of the German RMA / Williamson Murray
    • Conclusion: the future behind us / Williamson Murray and MacGregor Knox.
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