The Washington Post, July 17th, 1988
REINTERPRETING the history of 16th- and 17th-century Europe has been a favorite cottage industry among historians for more than three decades now. Military history has not been exempt from this trend, and Geoffrey Parker's The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 is in part a brilliant synthesis of what historians have said about the development of war and military institutions in Western Europe from Charles VIII's invasion of Italy in 1494, which so impressed Machiavelli and Guicciardini, to the Seven Years War. The concept of a military revolution is n...
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