Clifford J. Rogers
Clifford J. Rogersis a professor of history at theUnited States Military Academy at West Point.He has also been aLeverhulmeVisiting Professor atSwansea University,an Olin Fellow in Military and Strategic History atYale,and aFulbrightFellow at theInstitute of Historical Researchin London.
Career
[edit]Rogers writes mainly on medieval military history.
Rogers is the editor of the three-volumeOxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology,which received a Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History,[1]The Wars of Edward III: Sources and Interpretations,andThe Military Revolution Debate.He is co-editor ofThe Journal of Medieval Military History,[2]The West Point History of the Civil War,The West Point History of World War II,andThe West Point History of the American Revolution(each of which received an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award), and the essay collectionCivilians in the Path of War.He is co-Senior Editor of the 71-chapter interactive digital military history textbookThe West Point History of Warfare,which received the 2016 Society of Military History - George C. Marshall Foundation Prize for the Use of Digital Technology in Teaching Military History.[3]
Although Rogers' work on military revolutions has found favor with many historians,[4]some (includingKelly DeVries[5]and John Stone[6]) argue that his analysis suffers from "technological determinism."
Honors and awards
[edit]HisWar Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360won the 2003 Verbruggen Prize awarded by De Re Militari.[7]He has also been awarded theRoyal Historical Society's Alexander Prize medal and aSociety for Military HistoryMoncado Prize for his articles, some of which are collected in hisEssays on Medieval Military History: Strategy, Military Revolutions and the Hundred Years War.
HisSoldiers' Lives through History: The Middle Ages[8]received the 2009 Verbruggen Prize. A podcast of a lecture based on part of that book, focusing on the soldier's experience of battle, has been posted online by the New York Military Affairs Symposium.[9]
Select bibliography
[edit]The Wars of Edward III: Sources and Interpretations,ed. Clifford J. Rogers (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1999). [Paperback ed. 2010.]
War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360(Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000). [Paperback ed. 2014.]
Soldiers’ Lives through History: The Middle Ages(New York: Greenwood, 2007).
Essays on Medieval Military History: Strategy, Military Revolutions, and the Hundred Years War(London: Ashgate/Variorum, 2010).
References
[edit]- ^"Book Awards".Archived fromthe originalon November 29, 2010.RetrievedMarch 2,2011.
- ^The Journal of Medieval Military History
- ^"SMH GCMF Digital Prize".
- ^For example, Chase,Firearms,p. 224; Gat,War in Human Civilization,p.763; Parker,Military Revolution(1996), p. 185, Gruber, "Atlantic Warfare, 1440-1763," 418.
- ^Kelly DeVries, “Catapults are Not Atom Bombs: Towards a Redefinition of ‘Effectiveness’ in Premodern Military Technology,”War in History,4 (1997): 454-70; cf. C. J. Rogers, “The Efficacy of the English Longbow: A Reply to Kelly DeVries,”War in History,5 (1998):233-42.
- ^Journal of Military History; Apr 2004, Vol. 68 Issue 2, p361-380
- ^"Minutes from the De Re Militari Business Meeting".De Re Militari. March 8, 2003. Archived fromthe originalon January 15, 2008.Retrieved2008-03-06.
- ^Review from TMR available online athttp://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=tmr;cc=tmr;q1=soldiers%20%20lives;rgn=main;view=text;idno=baj9928.0901.012.
- ^"New York Military Affairs Symposium - Podcasts".
