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Geoffrey Parker | |
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| Born | Noel Geoffrey Parker 25 December 1943 Nottingham, England |
| Awards | Heineken Prize (2012) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Christ's College, Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Sir John Elliott |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
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| Doctoral students | |
| Main interests | Military Revolution |
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Noel Geoffrey Parker FRHistS FBA (born 25 December 1943) is an English historian specialising in the history of Western Europe, Spain, and warfare during the early modern era. His best known book is The 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 LittD degrees from Cambridge University where he studied under the historian Sir John Elliott.
Parker has taught at the University of Illinois, the University of St Andrews, and Yale University. He is currently the Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at the Ohio State University.
Parker was a consultant and main contributor on the BBC series, Armada: 12 Days to Save England.
In 2023, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[1]