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The Pursuit of Power

- Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
Af: William H. McNeill Engelsk Paperback

The Pursuit of Power

- Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
Af: William H. McNeill Engelsk Paperback
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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."  
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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."  
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 416
ISBN-13: 9780226561585
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0226561585
Kategori: Verdenshistorie
Udg. Dato: 15 sep 1984
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 139mm
Højde: 212mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 15 sep 1984
Forfatter(e): William H. McNeill
Forfatter(e) William H. McNeill

Kategori Verdenshistorie

ISBN-13 9780226561585

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 416

Udgave

Længde 27mm

Bredde 139mm

Højde 212mm

Udg. Dato 15 sep 1984

Oplagsdato 15 sep 1984

Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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