Geoffrey Parker

Andreas Dorpalen Professor
History
105A Mershon Center
614.688.4425
parker.277@osu.edu

Education
B. A., History, Cambridge University (1965)
Ph.D., History, Cambridge University (1968)
D.Litt., Cambridge University (1981)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Parker has published widely on the social, political and military history of early modern Europe.

Selected Publications
Felipe II: La biografía definitiva (Editorial Planeta, forthcoming)

"'A Swift and Sure Peace':  The Congress of Westphalia, 1643-1648," with Derek Croxton, in Making Peace:  Rulers, States, and the Aftermath of War, ed. by Williamson Murray and Jim Lacey (New York, 2009)
 
"Crisis and Catastrophe: The Global Crisis of the 17th-Century Reconsidered" (American Historical Review, 2008)

"The Military Revolutions, Then and Now," with Jeremy Black, Dennis Showalter and Jeffrey Clarke, reprinted in Historians in Conversation: Recent Themes in Military History, ed. by D. Yerxa (Columbia University Press, 2008)

Unmaking the West: ‘What If?’ Scenarios That Rewrite World History, ed. with Philip E. Tetlock and Richard Ned Lebow (2006)

Ohio and the World 1753-2053: Essays Toward a New History of Ohio (Columbus, 2004)

Success is Never Final: Empire War and Faith in Early Modern Europe (New York, 2002; paperback, 2003)

The Grand Strategy of Philip II (New Haven and London, 1998; paperback, 2000; translated into Spanish)

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare (Cambridge, 1995; paperback 2000; translated into Chinese and Korean)

The Times Compact Atlas of World History (London, 1995; 2nd ed., 1997, translated into Czech, Danish, German, Hungarian, Polish and Portuguese)

The Times Atlas of World History, 4th ed. (London, 1993)

The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 1988; paperback, 1990; 3rd rev. ed., 1999; translated into Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese)

The Spanish Armada, with Colin Martin (London, 1988; paperback, 1992; translated into French and Spanish; rev. ed., Manchester, 1999)

Europe in Crisis, 1598-1648 (London, 1979; new ed., Oxford, 2001)

The Thirty Years’ War (London, 1984; paperback, 1985; 3rd rev. ed., 1996; translated into German, Italian and Spanish; second Spanish edition, 2004)

Philip II (Boston, 1978; paperback, 1988; 3rd rev. ed., 1994; translated into Czech, Dutch, Italian, Polish, and Spanish)

The Dutch Revolt (London, 1977; paperback, 1978; 3rd rev. ed., 1985; translated into Dutch, German and Spanish)

The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659: The logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries Wars (Cambridge, 1972; paperback edition, 1975; 3rd, rev. ed., 2004; translated into Dutch and Spanish)

Honors and Awards
University Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University (2007)

Harlan Hatcher Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service, Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University (2007)

Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, The Ohio State University (2006)

D. Litt. honoris causa, Catholic University of Brussels (2004)

Harry Frank Guggenheim Senior Fellowship for World Crisis of the 17th Century (2001)

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for World Crisis of the 17th Century (2001)

Society for Military History’s Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for work in military and naval history (1999)

Knight Grand Cross, Order of Alfonso the Wise (1996)

Knight Grand Cross, Order of Isabella the Catholic, bestowed by King of Spain (1992)

D. Litt. honoris causa, Free University of Brussels (1991)

American Military Institute Best Book Prize for The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800 (1990)

Society for the History of Technology’s Edelstein Prize for The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800 (1990)

Corresponding Fellow, Royal Spanish Academy of History (elected 1987)

Fellow, British Academy, the highest honor open to scholars in the humanities in Britain (elected 1984)

Mershon Projects
Revising The Military Revolution, which draws on 20 years of discussion and debate as well as additional research to thoroughly revise Parker's classic book The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, first published by Cambridge in 1988 (2008-09)

The World Crisis: Climate, Catastrophe, and State Breakdown in the 17th Century, which examines the economic, social and political impact of extreme climatic events on states and their population by looking at the last global crisis to leave abundant records: 1640-60 (2006-08)

Ohio and the World (2003)

Unmaking the West: “What If?” Scenarios That Rewrite World History, with Philip Tetlock (1998-2005)