Geoffrey Parker

1943 -

country of citizenship: United Kingdom, United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

occupation: military historian, historian of Modern Age, historian, university teacher, history teacher, school teacher, educator, professor

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise, Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History, Fellow of the British Academy, honorary doctorate of the University of Burgos, honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

student of: John Elliott

Noel Geoffrey Parker (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. Source: Wikipedia (en)