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The Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe - A Revision (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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The Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe - A Revision (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book challenges the premise that a 'military revolution'
prompted the major European powers to enter into an era of global
hegemony during the early modern period, and suggests that this
theory is not supported if we closely examine contemporary
historical events. The conquests of Mexico and Peru, arguably the
two most important colonial acquisitions by a European power during
that era, were accomplished without the technology or tactics that
are usually associated with the 'military revolution'. On the other
hand, Japan, Korea, some Indian states and the Ottoman Empire
implemented military reforms, both tactical and technological, that
are commonly associated with what was considered an exclusively
Western approach to warfare. By comparing case studies of the
Western and the non-Western world, Frank Jacob and Gilmar
Visoni-Alonzo show that the concept of such a 'military revolution'
is a myth perpetuated by a Eurocentric perspective on history.
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