1. Cited in P.K. O’Brien and S.L. Engerman, ‘Exports and the Growth of the British Economy from the Glorious Revolution to the Peace of Amiens’, in B.L. Solow, ed., Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic system (Cambridge, 1991), p. 177.
2. For a survey of scholarship see H. Zmora, Monarchy, Aristocracy and the State in Europe, 1300–1800 (New York, 2001).
3. Key works include G. Parker, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500–1800 (Cambridge, 1988)
4. G. Parker, ‘Military Revolutions, Past and Present’, Historically Speaking, 4 (2003), pp. 2–6
5. J. Black, A Military Revolution? Military Change and European Society 1550–1800 (Basingstoke, 1990).