WAR AND SOCIAL CHANGE: THE MILITARY REVOLUTION

Jonathan Abel, Command and General Staff College

This course will examine the changes in the European art and science of war from the advent of gunpowder c1400 to the American rebellion in the 1770s.  It will illustrate the effects of these changes on demography, political institutions, industrial production, social structure, taxation patterns, and other areas.  This will explain much of the development of the modern world and its institutions, through the lens of military history.