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  The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 (Hardback) By (author) Geoffrey Parker

  

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  Short Description for The Military Revolution This work attempts to explain how the West, so small and so deficient in natural resources in 1500, came to control over one-third of the world by 1800. The author examines the reasons, military and industrial, which brought about this domination.
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  • Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 01 June 1988
  • Format: Hardback 256 pages
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  • Categories: General & World History | Military History
  • ISBN 13: 9780521326070 ISBN 10: 0521326079

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• Looks how firearms affected the development of offensive and defensive strategy, discusses the creation of ocean-going warships, and describes how these developments gave the Western powers military superiority