Geoffrey Parker

25 Dec 1943

Noel Geoffrey Parker, FBA (born Nottingham, United Kingdom, 25 December 1943) is a British historian specialising in the history of Western Europe, Spain, and warfare during 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. He holds his BA, MA, PhD and Litt.D. degrees from Cambridge University where he studied under the historian Sir John Huxtable Elliott. Parker has taught at the University of Illinois, the University of St. Andrews and Yale University. He is

• The Cambridge History of Warfare
• Platform revolution
• Unmaking the West
• Global crisis
• Spain and the Netherlands, 1559-1659
• The military revolution
• Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare
• The Cambridge illustrated history of warfare
• The Spanish Armada
• Grand Strategy of Philip II
• The Dutch revolt
• The Thirty Years' War