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Bastioned fortresses and the military revolution

Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2015

Abstract

This text attempts to analyse the historical social developmental process of military revolution in Europe during 16th to 18th centuries. It deploys the actor-network theory by Bruno Latour to analyse the concepts of military historian Geoffrey Parker, who considers the changing dynamics of assault and defence during sieges of new type of fortifications, so called bastioned fortresses, to be the determining factor of the military revolution.