To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military mode

This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.

The author provides a critical audit of the great RMA debate and of some actual RMA behavior and warns against a transformation that is highly potent only in a

This book brings together, for the first time, the classic articles that began and have shaped the debate about the Military Revolution in early modern Europe,