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Pursuit of Power : Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A. D. 1000 by William H. McNeill (1984, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226561585

ISBN-139780226561585

eBay Product ID (ePID)67328

Product Key Features

Number of Pages416 Pages

Publication NamePursuit of Power : Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A. D. 1000

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1984

SubjectMilitary / General, World / General, General

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, History

AuthorWilliam H. Mcneill

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight17.8 Oz

Item Length0.8 in

Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN81-024095

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal355.0209

Table Of ContentPreface 1. Arms and Society in Antiquity 2. The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000-1500 Market and Command in Medieval China Market Mobilization beyond China's borders 3. 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 4. 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 5. Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence, 1700-1789 Disequilibrium Arising from Frontier Expansion Challenges Arising from Deliberate Reorganization 6. 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 7. The Initial Industrialization of War, 1840-84 Commercial and National Armaments Rivalries A New Paradigm: The Prussian Way of War Global Repercussions 8. 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 9. 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 10. The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945 Conclusion Index

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SynopsisIn 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.", 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."

LC Classification NumberU37.M38 1999