Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800 | The early modern period produced the improvements in military technology which were the foundation for the West's domination of the world...

Kurt Kuhlmann 2/25/92 HST 352.01 Review: The Military Revolution. Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, by Geoffrey Parker (Cambridge University Press, 1988). Geoffrey Parker's The Military Revolution falls within a genre of military history which seeks to explain the European success in establishing colonial empires over much of the world beginning in the 16th century. Unlike ...