Geoffrey Parker

Noel Geoffrey Parker

(1943-12-25) 25 December 1943
Nottingham, England

History

  • The Military Revolution (1988)
  • Global Crisis (2013)

Guide to the Archives of the Spanish Institutions in or concerned with the Netherlands (1556–1706). Brussels, 1971. (Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, numéro spécial 3).

The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567–1659: The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries' Wars. Cambridge University Press, 1972 (2nd ed. 2004).

"Military Revolution, 1560–1660: A Myth?" The Journal of Modern History 48, no. 2 (June 1976): 195–214.

The Dutch Revolt. London: Allen Lane, 1977.

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(with Angela Parker) European Soldiers, 1550–1650. Cambridge University Press, 1977.

(edited with Charles Wilson) An Introduction to the Sources of European Economic History, 1500–1800 (Cornell University Press, 1977).

Philip II. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978 (3rd ed. Chicago: Open Court, 1995).

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(Joint editor) The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. London: Routledge, 1978 (2nd ed. 1997).

Europe in Crisis, 1598–1648. Cornell University Press, 1979 (2nd ed. 2001).

Spain and the Netherlands 1559-1659: Ten Studies. London: Collins, 1979 (2nd ed. Fontana, 1990).

The Thirty Years' War (with several contributors). London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984 (rev. eds. 1987, 1993, 1997).

Western Geopolitical Thought in the Twentieth Century. London: Croom Helm, 1985.

(With Colin Martin) The Spanish Armada. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988.

"Why the Armada Failed." The Quarterly Journal of Military History 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1988).

(Joint editor) The Times History of the World, 3rd ed. London, 1995.

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare: The Triumph of the West. Cambridge University Press, 1995 (rev. ed. 2008)

The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500–1800. Cambridge University Press, 1988 (rev. ed. 1996).

(co-edited with ) The Reader's Companion to Military History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Robert Cowley

The Grand Strategy of Philip II. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

The World is Not Enough: The Imperial Vision of Philip II of Spain. Waco, Texas: Markham Press Fund, 2001.

Empire, War and Faith in Early Modern Europe. London: Allen Lane, 2002.

(Editor) The Cambridge History of Warfare. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (rev. ed. 2020)

Felipe II: La biografía definitiva. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 2010.

Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013.

Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014.

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Emperor: A New Life of . New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019.[14] ISBN 9780300196528 OCLC 1112998062

Charles V

Military Revolution

Andrade, Tonio, and William Reger. "Geoffrey Paker and Early Modern History" in The limits of empire: European imperial formations in early modern world history: essays in honor of Geoffrey Parker, ed by William Reger, (Routledge, 2016), pp xix to xxvii.

Parker, Geoffrey. "'A man's gotta know his limitations:' Reflections on a Misspent Past," in The limits of empire: European imperial formations in early modern world history: essays in honor of Geoffrey Parker, ed by William Reger, (Routledge, 2016), pp 309–376.

Van Ittersum, Martine, Felicia Gottmann, and Tristan Mostert. "Writing global history and Its challenges—A workshop with Jürgen Osterhammel and Geoffrey Parker." Itinerario 40.3 (2016): 357–376.

online

University Biography Page

Course Pages

Audio of lecture. 2 February 1980.

Parker, Geoffrey. "Conscience and power: Philip II of Spain, history and legend."

Audio of Geoffrey Parker's lecture at the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities 19 April 2007.

"Climate and Catastrophe: The World Crisis of the 17th Century"

KNAW Video Interview with Geoffrey Parker on the occasion of the awarding of the Heineken Prize