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The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
William H. McNeill
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Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HBG; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562. 416 pages, Ill. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HBG; JWL. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 27. Weight: 516.
In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow—banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians to use against one another—to the nuclear missile, from the sociological consequences of drill in the seventeenth century to the emergence of the military-industrial complex in the twentieth. His central argument is that a commercial transformation of world society in the eleventh century caused military ... Read more
In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow—banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians to use against one another—to the nuclear missile, from the sociological consequences of drill in the seventeenth century to the emergence of the military-industrial complex in the twentieth. His central argument is that a commercial transformation of world society in the eleventh century caused military ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Condition
New
Weight
576g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226561585
SKU
V9780226561585
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