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The Pursuit of Power

Paperback • 1984 • English • 2. edition

The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000

By William H. McNeill

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About the book

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 militar...Show more

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ISBN

9780226561585

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

1984

Language

English

Edition

2

Original title

The Pursuit of Power

Format

Paperback

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