Pursuit of Power Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A. D. 1000

Name: Pursuit of Power Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A. D. 1000
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ISBN: 9780226561585

ISBN-10: 0226561585

ISBN-13: 9780226561585

Edition: 1982 (Reprint)

Authors: William H. McNeill

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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 activity to respond increasingly to market…

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List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface



Arms and Society in Antiquity



The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000-1500 Market and Command in Medieval China Market Mobilization beyond China's borders



The Business of War in Europe, 1000-1600 Pioneering the Business of War in Northern Italy The Gunpowder Revolution and the Rise of Atlantic Europe The Market Asserts Control



Advances in Europe's Art of War, 1600-1750 Geographical Spread Improvements in the Control of Armies Standardization and Quasi-Stabilization of European Armed Forces



Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence, 1700-1789 Disequilibrium Arising from Frontier Expansion Challenges Arising from Deliberate Reorganization



The Military Impact of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions, 1789-1840 The French Formula for Relieving Population Pressure The British Variant Postwar Settlement, 1815-40



The Initial Industrialization of War, 1840-84 Commercial and National Armaments Rivalries A New Paradigm: The Prussian Way of War Global Repercussions



Intensified Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884-1914 Decay of Britain's Strategic Position Emergence of the Military-Industrial Complex in Great Britain Naval Armament and the Politicization of Economics The Limits of Rational Design and Management International Repercussions



World Wars of the Twentieth Century Balance of Power and Demography in World Wars I and II Managerial Metamorphosis in World War I: First Phase, 1914-16 Managerial Metamorphosis in World War I: Second Phase, 1916-18 Interwar Reaction and Return to Managed Economies during World War II



The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945


Conclusion


Index