Geoffrey Parker

Noel Geoffrey Parker, FBA (born Nottingham, United Kingdom, 25 December 1943) is a British historian specialising in the history of Western Europe, Spain, and warfare during the early modern era. His best known book is *Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500–1800*, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. He holds his BA, MA, PhD and Litt.D. degrees from Cambridge University where he studied under the historian Sir John Huxtable Elliott. Parker has taught at …