La Rivoluzione militare in Francia: recezione e attualità della tesi

Abstract

This article reconstructs the various stages in the debate on the concept of military revolution within the French historiography of the second half of the twentieth century. It spans a period from the initial distrust of Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel to the gradual dissemination of Roberts and Parker’s innovative thesis. Despite certain errors, which in our opinion were not accidental, the concept of the ‘military revolution’ was widely discussed in France as elsewhere, and effectively accepted, despite the numerous criticisms levelled at it.