This book challenges the premise that a æmilitary revolutionÆ 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 æmilitary revolutionÆ. 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 æmilitary revolutionÆ is a myth perpetuated by a Eurocentric perspective on history.
- | Author: Frank Jacob, Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo
- | Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
- | Publication Date: Jul 05, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 106 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/History
- | ISBN-10: 1137539178
- | ISBN-13: 9781137539175
