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"The Pursuit of Power Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A. D. 1000" by William H. McNeill

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"The Pursuit of Power Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A. D. 1000" by William H. McNeill

"The Pursuit of Power Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A. D. 1000" by William H. McNeill
University of Chicago Press, Basil Blackwell Publisher Limited | 1982 | ISBN: 0631131345, 0226561585 | 415 pages | PDF | 39 MB

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."




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.

Table of Contents
Preface
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
Index

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