ABSTRACT
The "Military Revolution", as Roberts dubbed it, has been thoroughly integrated into the canon of early modern European history—;and, increasingly, into early modern world history as well. McNeill's The Pursuit of Power Though somewhat altered, the basic idea of the Military Revolution continued to hold the high ground both in early modern and in military historiography. The trace italienne, Geoffrey Parker added a key new ingredient to the Military Revolution debate: military technology as a causative factor. While Roberts and Parker had mentioned the greater impact of the new large armies on society, Jones' article spelled out the details of plundering, taxation, billeting, and Kontributions. Roberts' article immediately found wide acceptance among early modern historians, partly because Sir George Clark incorporated the idea of the Military Revolution into his 1958 War and Society in the Seventeenth Century.
