Sir Geoffrey Parker (born 1943 in Nottingham, England) is a leading expert on military history. 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. 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Nottingham is a city (and county town of Nottinghamshire) in the East Midlands of England. ... Military history is composed of the events in the history of humanity that fall within the category of conflict. ...
He also has four children: Richard, Edmund, Susie and Jamie.
Major books
Parker, Geoffrey. Military Revolution, 1560-1660 - A Myth?, 1976
Parker, Geoffrey. Europe in Crisis, 1598-1648. Cornell U. Press, 1979.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, 2nd. Ed. Press Syndicate of U. of Cambridge, 1996.
Parker, Geoffrey, and Lesley M. Smith, eds. The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, 2nd ed. Routledge, 1997.
Parker, Geoffrey,"The window everyone overlooked", Wim de Groot et al. (concept and ed.), The Seventh Window. The King's Window donated by Philip II and Mary Tudor to Sint-Janskerk in Gouda (1557), Hilversum 2005, p. 12-18.
External links
Geoffrey Parker - Ohio State University - RateMyProfessors.com