Guy Rowlands is a British

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and

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specialising in the

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. In 2002 he was the winner of the Gladstone Book Prize awarded annually by the

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. He serves as Secretary for the Society for the Study of French History and is Director of the Centre for French History and Culture at the

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. His research has mainly concerned seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, especially France’s mobilisation for war between 1661 and 1783. He is best known for the book ''The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661 to 1701''The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV - Cambridge University Press
/ref> which analysed the growth of the army under Louis XIV and stressed the role of noble families in the organisation of the state.

Publications

*''The Third Reign of Louis XIV, c.1682-1715'', eds. Julia Prest and Guy Rowlands (Routledge, 2016). *''The Financial Decline of a Great Power: War, Influence, and Money in Louis XIV's France'' (2012) *''St Andrews Studies in French History and Culture'' (2010) *''The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661 to 1701'' (Cambridge University Press, 2002) *"The Ethos of Blood and Changing Values? Robe, Épée and the French Armies, 1661 to 1715" in ''Seventeenth-Century French Studies,'' 19 (1997) *"Louis XIV, Aristocratic Power and the Elite Units of the French Army" in ''French History'', 13 (1999) *"Louis XIV, Vittorio Amedeo II and French Military Failure in Italy, 1689-1696" in ''English Historical Review'', 115 (2000) *"Louis XIV et la «stratégie de cabinet». Mythe et réalité" in ''Revue historique des armées'', 222 (2001) *"An Army in Exile: Louis XIV and the Irish Forces of James II in France, 1691-1698" in ''Royal Stuart Paper'', 60 (2001) *"The Monopolisation of Military Power in France, 1515-1715" in (eds) Ronald G. Asch, Wulf Eckart Voß and Martin Wrede, ''Frieden und Krieg in der Frühen Neuzeit'' (Munich, 2001) *"La guerre et la cour: l’ascension sociale et politique de la famille Le Tellier, 1661-1701" in A. Tartié et al., ''Combattre, Gouverner, Ecrire. Etudes réunies en l'honneur de Jean Chagniot'' (Paris, 2003) *"The Court and the Political Culture of the French Army under Louis XIV" in ''European History 1477-1715: Court, Culture, Power and Diplomacy,'' 1 (2004) *"The King’s Two Arms: French Amphibious Warfare in the Mediterranean under Louis XIV, 1664 to 1697" in (eds) M. Fissel and D. Trim, ''Amphibious Warfare and European Expansion, 1000-1700: War, Commerce and State-Formation'' (2005)

References

External links

*http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/reformation/news/A4_news_38.pdf *http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_military_history/v069/69.1rowlands.html *http://www.h-france.net/vol5reviews/rowlands.html *http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/W/wreck_detectives_2003/the_wrecks/hms_hazardous/more.html *http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521641241 *http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cfhc/staff.shtml *http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/guyrowlands.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Rowlands, Guy British historians Living people Year of birth missing (living people)