geoffrey parker the grand strategy of philip ii

In 1987 he was diagnosed as having Multiple Sclerosis. History of Warfare (1995) and The Grand Strategy of Philip II) 1998 which.

Rodger (London, 1997) Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen (New Haven and London 1997) The Grand Strategy of. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, and has four children. Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at the Ohio State. The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain, Volume I 660-1649 by N.A.M. As Geoffrey Parker’s fantastic volume The Grand Strategy of Philip II (Yale University Press, 2000) makes clear, the Hapsburg emperor could convince himself that to fulfill his earthly mission of unifying Roman Catholic lands and stamping out infidels, he should single-handedly exercise command and control in the form of his own person. In 2006 he won an OSU Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. He has directed or co-directed over thirty Doctoral Dissertations to completion, as well as several undergraduate theses. In 2012 the Royal Dutch Academy awarded Parker its biennial Heineken Foundation Prize for History, open to scholars in any field, and any period, from any country and two years later he won one of the three medals awarded by the British Academy for ‘a landmark academic achievement… which has transformed understanding of a particular subject’, for his book Global Crisis: war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century (Yale University Press, 2013).īefore moving to Ohio State in 1997, Parker taught at Cambridge and St Andrews in Britain, at the University of British Columbia in Canada, and at Illinois and Yale Universities in the United States, teaching courses on the Reformation, European history and military history at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Geoffrey parker the grand strategy of philip ii