Given the size of the topic — and I can think of no comparable work of such ambition — this is, as the author, readily admits a “work of synthesis” but it is a very impressive one that is built on a staggering array of secondary materials ... Roy has done a great service to the field by surveying the military landscape across early modern Asia and <i>Military Transition in Early Modern Asia</i> makes an important contribution to the debate over the global dimensions of the Military Revolution.

- Adam Clulow, Monash University, Australian Journal of Politics and History

…provides another useful stepping stone to further studies of military relations between the West and Asia in the early modern period.

The Historian