Geoffrey Parker (military historian)

Geoffrey Parker (born December 25, 1943 in Nottingham ) is a British-American military historian .

Geoffrey Parker studied history at Christ's College Cambridge . where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. received. From 1968 to 1972 he was a fellow at Christ's College in Cambridge. From 1972 he was a lecturer , 1978 to 1982 he was a reader and from 1982 professor of modern history (early modern times) at the University of St. Andrews . In 1981 he was awarded a PhD in Literature at Cambridge for his early modern publications. In 1984 he was Lee Knowles Lecturer in Military History at the University of Cambridge . In 1986 he moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Charles E. Nowell Distinguished Professor of History. From 1989 to 1993 he headed the history faculty there. From 1993 to 1996 he taught as the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University . In 1997 he went to Ohio State University , where he is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History . Parker also held visiting professorships at the Free University of Brussels (1975), at the University of British Columbia (1979/80) and at Keio University in Tokyo (1983). Parker is now a US citizen.

His most significant work is Military Revolution. Military innovation and the rise of the West, 1500-1800 , which was published in 1988 by Cambridge University Press . His 1972 book The Army of Flanders embarked on a new path in military historiography with an emphasis on logistics and military planning. In addition to early modern military history, he also dealt with early modern Spanish history and Dutch history. He wrote a biography of Philip II and a book on the influence of climate on history.

Parker has received numerous scientific honors and memberships for his research. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (1984), a member of the Real Academia de la Historia , the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and a member of the Order of Alfonso X. Parker received the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic . He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel , the Catholic University of Brussels (2005) and the University of Burgos (2010). Parker was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize in 1999 and the AH Heineken Prize for History in 2012.

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Global crises. War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. Yale University Press, New Haven CT 2013, ISBN 978-0-300-15323-1 .
Success is never final. Empire, War and Faith in Early Modern Europe. BasicBooks, New York NY 2002, ISBN 0-465-05477-3 .
The Grand Strategy of Philip II. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 2000, ISBN 0-300-07540-5 .
as editor with Lesley M. Smith: The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London et al. 1997, ISBN 0-7100-8865-5 .
as editor with Robert Cowley: The Reader's Companion to Military History. Houghton Mifflin, Boston MA 1996, ISBN 0-395-66969-3 .
as editor: The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-44073-4 .
as editor: The Times compact Atlas of World History. Times Books, London 1995, ISBN 0-7230-0565-6 .
as editor with Richard L. Kagan : Spain, Europe and the Atlantic World. Essays in Honor of John H. Elliott . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1995, ISBN 0-521-47045-5 .
The Military Revolution. Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800. (The Lees Knowles lectures 1984, given at Trinity College, Cambridge). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1988, ISBN 0-521-32607-9 .
- in German: The military revolution. The Art of War and the Rise of the West 1500–1800. From the English by Ute Mihr. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1990, ISBN 3-593-34365-7 .
with Colin Martin: The Spanish Armada. Hamish Hamilton, London et al. 1988, ISBN 0-241-12125-6 .
Why the Armada failed. In: History Today. Vol. 8, No. 5, May 1988, ISSN 0018-2753 , pp. 26-33.
as editor: The Thirty Years' War. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London et al. 1984, ISBN 0-7100-9788-3 .
- in German: The Thirty Years War. (Translated from English by Udo Rennert). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1987, ISBN 3-593-33788-6 .
The Dutch Revolt. Lane, London 1977, ISBN 0-7139-1032-1 .
- in German: The uprising in the Netherlands. From the rule of the Spaniards to the founding of the Dutch Republic 1549–1609. Callwey, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7667-0459-1 .
Europe in Crisis. 1598-1648. Fontana, London 1979, ISBN 0-00-686143-1 .
Spain and the Netherlands. 1559-1659. Ten Studies. Collins, London 1979, ISBN 0-00-216790-5 .
Philip II. Little, Brown, Boston et al. 1978, ISBN 0-316-69080-5 .
The "Military Revolution," 1560–1660 - a Myth? In: The Journal of Modern History. Vol. 48, No. 2, June 1976, ISSN 0022-2801 , pp. 195-214.
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, London et al. 1972, ISBN 0-521-08462-8 .
Guide to the Archives of the Spanish Institutions in or concerned with the Nederlands (1556-1706) (= Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique. Numéro Spécial. Vol. 3, ISSN 0003-9748 ). Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, Brussels 1971.
Emperor. A new life of Charles V. , Yale University Press 2019

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SURNAME	Parker, Geoffrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British-American modern and military historian
DATE OF BIRTH	December 25, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nottingham