The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society Since 1000 AD
By William H. McNeill
Published by The University of Chicago Press
Year Published - 1982
Book Format - Hard cover
Summary
In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, 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. He also traces the sociological consequences of military drill in the seventeenth century to the emergence of the military industrial complex in the twentieth. McNeill moves easily from European to Chinese and Islamic cultures and from military to socio-economic and political developments.
Notes - Slight wear on dust jacket.
By William H. McNeill
Published by The University of Chicago Press
Year Published - 1982
Book Format - Hard cover
Summary
In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, 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. He also traces the sociological consequences of military drill in the seventeenth century to the emergence of the military industrial complex in the twentieth. McNeill moves easily from European to Chinese and Islamic cultures and from military to socio-economic and political developments.
Notes - Slight wear on dust jacket.
By William H. McNeill
Published by The University of Chicago Press
Year Published - 1982
Book Format - Hard cover
Summary
In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, 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. He also traces the sociological consequences of military drill in the seventeenth century to the emergence of the military industrial complex in the twentieth. McNeill moves easily from European to Chinese and Islamic cultures and from military to socio-economic and political developments.
Notes - Slight wear on dust jacket.
