The Military Revolution and the State, 1500-1800 by Michael Duffy

Michael Duffy is Head of History at the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute for Maritime Historical Studies, as well as the General Editor of Exeter Maritime Studies. He wrote The Younger Pitt (Longman, 2000) and edited Parameters of British Naval Power 1650-1850 (UEP, 1992) and The New Maritime History of Devon (Conway Maritime, 1992). Until 1995, Roger Morriss worked as a Curator at the National Maritime Museum in London. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter Institute for Maritime Studies and the University of London History Department.