عنوان

The pursuit of power :

شابک

0226561577

شابک

9780226561578

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

The pursuit of power :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

technology, armed force, and society since A.D. 1000 /

نام نخستين پديدآور

William H. McNeill

نام خاص و کميت اثر

x, 405 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

22 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

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

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"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 forces as well as to the commands of rulers. Only in our own time, suggests McNeill, are command economies replacing the market control of large-scale human effort. The Pursuit of Power does not solve the problems of the present, but its discoveries, hypotheses, and sheer breadth of learning do offer a perspective on our current fears and, as McNeill hopes, 'a ground for wiser action'."--Publisher description

موضوع مستند نشده

Military art and science-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Military history, Medieval

موضوع مستند نشده

Military history, Modern

موضوع مستند نشده

World politics

موضوع مستند نشده

Art et science militaires - Histoire

موضوع مستند نشده

Histoire militaire médiévale

موضوع مستند نشده

Histoire militaire moderne et contemporaine

موضوع مستند نشده

Politique mondiale

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

McNeill, William Hardy,1917-

تاريخ عمليات

20160712040722.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y