J C Sharman
Autore di Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
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J. C. Sharman is Senior Lecturer in Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.
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Further, Sharman also critiques the less-than-honest tendency to explain such successful European force projection as there was in terms of invoking the so-called "Military Revolution" post-1500, allied with bad Darwinian thinking (is there any other kind outside of the life sciences?), to create a certain sense of inevitability. Calling out such thinking is fine, but what you don't get from Sharman is any sense that the military historians don't actually believe in this theory categorically themselves, if they ever did, and its influence has certainly faded over the past twenty years or so. The modern trend amongst military historians is to focus as much on organizational culture as anything else, keeping in mind that fashions in tactics and weapons are going to be conditioned by the social and political dynamics within a given military force; not that different from the arguments made by Sharman.… (altro)