CHAPTER FIVE: STRATEGY AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER

 

1. Michael Roberts, The Military Revolution 1556 – 1660 (1956), reprinted with slight changes in Michael Roberts, Essays in Swedish History (University of Minnesota Press, 1967), 195 – 225.

2. Sir George Clark, War and Society in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1958).

3. See, for example, Karen Rasler and William Thomson, “War Making and State Making and Governmental Expenditures, Tax Reviews and Global War,” American Political Science Review 49 (1985): 491 – 507; Michael Mann, States, War, and Capitalism (Basil Blackwell, 1988); John Brewer, The Sinews of Power (Unwin Hyman, 1989); Niall Ferguson, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700 – 2000 (Basic Books, 2001).

4. Parker, The Military Revolution, 2–3.

5. See also William McNeill, The Pursuit of Power (University of Chicago Press, 1982).

6. Geoffrey Parker, “The ‘Military Revolution,’ 1560 – 1660—A Myth?,” Journal of Modern History 46 (1976).

7. Jeremy Black, European Warfare, 1660 – 1815 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).