Books by Geoffrey (Ohio State University) Parker

The publication of The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road in 1972 marked the birth of the 'new military history', and has been constantly cited since its first publication. This revised second edition includes some new sources and updates some references but otherwise remains faithful to the original version.

An authoritative and exciting account of the eventful first half of the seventeenth century. * Gives an account of the revolution, civil war and complex international conflicts which brought many states to the edge of collapse in the 1640s.

This is a new edition of Geoffrey Parker's much-admired illustrated account of how the West, so small and so deficient in natural resources in 1500, had by 1800 come to control over one-third of the world.