1. The concept of the military revolution was first proposed by Michael Roberts in The Military Revolution, 1560–1660: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the Queen’s University of Belfast (Belfast: M. Boyd, 1956). Since then, the significance and timing of the revolution has been intensely debated, see G. Parker, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500–1800, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996);
2. J. Black, A Military Revolution?: Military Change and European Society, 1550–1800 (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1991) and
3. D. Eltis, The Military Revolution in Sixteenth-Century Europe (London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 1995).
4. J. Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989);
5. L. Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992);