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War and Technology
Buch von Jeremy Black
Sprache: Englisch

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Examining military technologies in their historical context and the present centered on the Revolution in Military Affairs and Military Transformation, Black then forecasts possible future trends.
Examining military technologies in their historical context and the present centered on the Revolution in Military Affairs and Military Transformation, Black then forecasts possible future trends.
Über den Autor

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of more than 100 books including Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871 (IUP, 2011) and War and the Cultural Turn. Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Key Themes

1. Early Modern Western Warships: Technologies of Power Projection and Lethality

2. Gunpowder Technology, 1490-1800

3. Firepower, Steamships, Railways, Telegraphs, Radio: Technologies of Killing, Logistics, Command, and Control, 1775-1945

4. The Internal Combustion Engine: The Technology of Decentralized Power, 1910-2013

5. A New Sphere: Air Power, 1903-2013

6. Revolution, Transformation, and the Present

7. Into the Future

Conclusions

Postscript

Notes

Selected Further Reading

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Fachbereich: Öffentliche Verwaltung
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780253009845
ISBN-10: 0253009847
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Black, Jeremy
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 235 x 157 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Jeremy Black
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2013
Gewicht: 0,679 kg
Artikel-ID: 106149762
Über den Autor

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of more than 100 books including Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871 (IUP, 2011) and War and the Cultural Turn. Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Key Themes

1. Early Modern Western Warships: Technologies of Power Projection and Lethality

2. Gunpowder Technology, 1490-1800

3. Firepower, Steamships, Railways, Telegraphs, Radio: Technologies of Killing, Logistics, Command, and Control, 1775-1945

4. The Internal Combustion Engine: The Technology of Decentralized Power, 1910-2013

5. A New Sphere: Air Power, 1903-2013

6. Revolution, Transformation, and the Present

7. Into the Future

Conclusions

Postscript

Notes

Selected Further Reading

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Fachbereich: Öffentliche Verwaltung
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780253009845
ISBN-10: 0253009847
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Black, Jeremy
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 235 x 157 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Jeremy Black
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2013
Gewicht: 0,679 kg
Artikel-ID: 106149762
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