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War and Technology.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: New York : Indiana University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (342 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253009890
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 623.4
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Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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Cover -- CONTENTS -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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