Noel Geoffrey Parker is a leading hispanist

Hispanist

A Hispanist is a scholar specialising in Hispanic studies, that is Spanish or Portuguese language, literature, linguistics, or civilization, and by extension, Basque, Catalan and Galician....

 and expert on military history

Military history

Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....

. 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. A fellow of the British Academy

British Academy

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, he holds his BA, MA, Ph.D. and Litt.D. degrees from Cambridge University where he studied under the historian, Sir John Huxtable Elliott

John Huxtable Elliott

Sir John Huxtable Elliott, FBA , who normally publishes as J.H. Elliott, is an eminent historian, Regius Professor Emeritus in the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge....

. Amongst the foreign honours he holds, he is a member of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise and was granted the Great Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by the Spanish government.

He has taught at the University of Illinois, the University of St. Andrews and Yale University

Yale University

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. He is currently the Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at The Ohio State University

Ohio State University

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Major works

• Parker, Geoffrey. Guide to the Archives of the Spanish Institutions in or concerned with the Netherlands (1556- 1706). Brussels, 1971. (Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, numéro spécial 3).
• Parker, Geoffrey. The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659, Cambridge, 1972.
• Parker, Geoffrey. Military Revolution, 1560-1660 - A Myth?, The Journal of Modern History 48(1976): 196-214
• Parker, Geoffrey. The Dutch Revolt, London, 1977.
• Parker, Geoffrey. Philip II, Boston and London, 1978.
• Parker, Geoffrey. Europe in Crisis, 1598-1648. Cornell U. Press, 1979.
• Parker, Geoffrey. The Thirty Years' War. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984.
• Parker, Geoffrey. Spain and the Netherlands, 1559-1659. Ten Studies, 2nd ed. Fontana, 1990.
• Parker, Geoffrey, joint ed. The Times History of the World, 3rd ed. London, 1995
• Parker, Geoffrey. The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, 2nd. Ed. Press Syndicate of U. of Cambridge, 1996.
• Parker, Geoffrey, and Lesley M. Smith, eds. The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, 2nd ed. Routledge, 1997.
• Parker, Geoffrey, The Grand Strategy of Philip II, 2000
• Parker, Geoffrey, The window everyone overlooked, Wim de Groot et al., The Seventh Window. The King's Window donated by Philip II and Mary Tudor to Sint-Janskerk in Gouda (1557) , 2005, p. 12-18.

External links

• University Biography Page
• Course Pages
• Parker, Geoffrey. "Conscience and power: Philip II of Spain, history and legend." Audio of lecture. February 2, 1980.
• Parker, Geoffrey. "Climate and Catastrophe: The World Crisis of the 17th Century." Audio and video of lecture. April 19, 2007.