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States, Strategy and struggle

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Jeremy Black
Jeremy Black
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University of Durham
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The Historical Journal , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , June 1994, pp. 477 - 486
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2 Menning, B., ‘Russian military innovation in the second half of the eighteenth century’, War and Society, II, 1 (1984), 23–41CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See more generally Black, J., European warfare, 1660–1815 (forthcoming).Google Scholar

3 It is worth noting the criticisms of Parker's work in Hall, B. S. and DeVries, K. R., ‘The “military revolution” revisited’, Technology and Culture, XXXI (1990), 500–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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7 Questionable views have recently been restated in Weigley, R. F., The Age of battles. The quest for decisive warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo (Bloomington, 1991)Google Scholar. For a different account, Black, J., A military revolution? Military change and European society 1550–1800 (London, 1991).Google Scholar

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