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The pursuit of power: technology, armed force, and society since A.D. 1000

McNeill, William Hardy, 1917-

Year: c1982.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press.

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Frontmatter

Preface

1 Arms and Society in Antiquity

2 The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000-1500

3 The Business of War in Europe, 1000-1600

4 Advances in Europe's Art of War, 1600-1750

5 Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence, 1700-1789

6 The Military Impact of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions, 1789-1840

7 The Initial Industrialization of War, 1840-84

8 Intensified Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884-1914

9 World Wars of the Twentieth Century

10 The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945

Conclusion

Index

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Title:

The pursuit of power : technology, armed force, and society since A.D. 1000 William H. McNeill.

Author:

McNeill, William Hardy, 1917-

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The pursuit of power : technology, armed force, and society since A.D. 1000 William H. McNeill.
McNeill, William Hardy, 1917-
Chicago, Il.: University of Chicago Press, c1982.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00833

Subject Headings:

• Military history, Medieval
• Military history, Modern
• World politics
• Military art and science -- History

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