European Warfare 1660-1815 Jeremy Black for UCL Press Black is one the new wave of historians staking out their territory in the effete highlands of the Baroque. The books starts out as an counter-blast against Michael Roberts' Military Revolution and its second wave from Geoffrey Parker. Whether Black is right in centring the Revolution in 1660 to 1815 I do not know, although I think we can get away from Gustavus as Superman. [Sadly the boardgame hobby has just reached this stage - Roberts published in 1955 - in 1996]. Black has some very interesting information on the interface between east and west and some clever arguments about what was truly revolutionary. I liked his insight that the War of The Austrian Succession was a war for the second-rate powers, but the Seven Years War only for the Premier League. Always well written and interesting, it leaves you less able to make snap judgements that before (and tempted to break out that copy of Fontenoy again). More Book Corner: The Origins of War in Early Modern Europe The Battle of Hastings Infantry Warfare in the Early 14th Century The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th Century Black Sea The Bayonets of the Republic European Warfare 1660-1815 The Austro-Prussian War Warfare Under Anglo-Norman Kings Empress Matilda -and- The Reign of Stephen Prince Eugene of Savoy The Medieval Archer The First World War: Germany and Austro-Hungary 1914-1918 Pallas Armata titles Back to Perfidious Albion #94 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1997 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com