Noel Geoffrey Parker (born 25 December 1943) is a British historian specializing in Spanish and military history of the early modern era. His best known book is Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. Born in Nottingham, England, he is a fellow of the British Academy and holds his BA, MA, Ph.D. and Litt.D. degrees from Cambridge University where he studied under the historian Sir John Huxtable Elliott. Amongst the foreign honours he holds, he is a member of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise and was granted the Great Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by the Spanish government. He has received honorary doctorates from the Catholic University of Brussels (Belgium) and the University of Burgos (Spain). He is a fellow of the British Academy, the Spanish Real Academia de la Historia, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he was awarded the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for History by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for his outstanding scholarship on the social, political and military history of Europe between 1500 and 1650, in particular Spain, Philip II, and the Dutch Revolt; for his contribution to military history in general; and for his research on the role of climate in world history.
Parker has taught at the University of Illinois, the University of St. Andrews and Yale University. He is currently the Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at The Ohio State University.
6 有用 功夫熊猫小碗熊 2014-09-28 11:25:57
全铜板印刷配图多。可看成蒂利“国家造战、战争立国”之详论,但更注重竞争—技术—组织—国家路径,将军事变革和国家建构比作如DNA双螺旋结构的缠绕,认为从16到18世纪支持欧洲抵抗穆斯林入侵并逐渐依靠少量资源转入大规模攻击和扩张,非尚无影踪工业革命之功,而是漫长时间中系列军事技术和组织变革的结果:陆上火器轻量化、精度提高和大量装备,步兵轻装化逐步取代骑兵,甲胄和城堡效能降低,海上火器上船,改进结构的舰... 全铜板印刷配图多。可看成蒂利“国家造战、战争立国”之详论,但更注重竞争—技术—组织—国家路径,将军事变革和国家建构比作如DNA双螺旋结构的缠绕,认为从16到18世纪支持欧洲抵抗穆斯林入侵并逐渐依靠少量资源转入大规模攻击和扩张,非尚无影踪工业革命之功,而是漫长时间中系列军事技术和组织变革的结果:陆上火器轻量化、精度提高和大量装备,步兵轻装化逐步取代骑兵,甲胄和城堡效能降低,海上火器上船,改进结构的舰队可驶往更远地方,海战从靠帮互砍转变为阵型、火力、射界和机动性比拼,均使战争优势从防守方逐渐转向进攻方,以城堡为中心的长期消耗围困战转为以部分据点和港口为依据的快速机动决战。如此则需要重构兵力来源,改进后勤以维持兵力长时间机动、补给和忠诚,装备标准化,平衡海陆军灵活性和组织权力集中,西方自此领先。 (展开)
1 有用 完颜穆尔登格 2020-03-22 08:23:13
战争导致——军事升级导致——重塑国家
1 有用 首席备胎 2009-11-05 11:36:24
帕克于此书中提出的所谓攻守双方基于竞争的互相升级理论导致欧洲军事革命的诞生是很值得人思考的,至少理论上很难找到反例,这是研习军事史的必读书。
2 有用 Crab 2021-08-26 10:18:58
“军事革命”理论的开篇之作,可惜好书没人译
1 有用 小黑 2012-02-01 02:43:29
Very compelling theory, but I am working on a project to show that Asian military power also went through similar revolutions as that in the West
2 有用 Crab 2021-08-26 10:18:58
“军事革命”理论的开篇之作,可惜好书没人译
1 有用 完颜穆尔登格 2020-03-22 08:23:13
战争导致——军事升级导致——重塑国家
6 有用 功夫熊猫小碗熊 2014-09-28 11:25:57
全铜板印刷配图多。可看成蒂利“国家造战、战争立国”之详论,但更注重竞争—技术—组织—国家路径,将军事变革和国家建构比作如DNA双螺旋结构的缠绕,认为从16到18世纪支持欧洲抵抗穆斯林入侵并逐渐依靠少量资源转入大规模攻击和扩张,非尚无影踪工业革命之功,而是漫长时间中系列军事技术和组织变革的结果:陆上火器轻量化、精度提高和大量装备,步兵轻装化逐步取代骑兵,甲胄和城堡效能降低,海上火器上船,改进结构的舰... 全铜板印刷配图多。可看成蒂利“国家造战、战争立国”之详论,但更注重竞争—技术—组织—国家路径,将军事变革和国家建构比作如DNA双螺旋结构的缠绕,认为从16到18世纪支持欧洲抵抗穆斯林入侵并逐渐依靠少量资源转入大规模攻击和扩张,非尚无影踪工业革命之功,而是漫长时间中系列军事技术和组织变革的结果:陆上火器轻量化、精度提高和大量装备,步兵轻装化逐步取代骑兵,甲胄和城堡效能降低,海上火器上船,改进结构的舰队可驶往更远地方,海战从靠帮互砍转变为阵型、火力、射界和机动性比拼,均使战争优势从防守方逐渐转向进攻方,以城堡为中心的长期消耗围困战转为以部分据点和港口为依据的快速机动决战。如此则需要重构兵力来源,改进后勤以维持兵力长时间机动、补给和忠诚,装备标准化,平衡海陆军灵活性和组织权力集中,西方自此领先。 (展开)
1 有用 小黑 2012-02-01 02:43:29
Very compelling theory, but I am working on a project to show that Asian military power also went through similar revolutions as that in the West
1 有用 首席备胎 2009-11-05 11:36:24
帕克于此书中提出的所谓攻守双方基于竞争的互相升级理论导致欧洲军事革命的诞生是很值得人思考的,至少理论上很难找到反例,这是研习军事史的必读书。