Guy Rowlands is a British academic and historian specialising in the history of France.
In 2002 he was the winner of the Gladstone Book Prize awarded annually by the Royal Historical Society.
[1] He serves as Secretary for the Society for the Study of French History[2] and is Director of the Centre for French History and Culture at the University of St Andrews.
[3] 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[4] which analysed the growth of the army under Louis XIV and stressed the role of noble families in the organisation of the state.