The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
The Pursuit of Power William H. McNeill ...
William H. McNeill The Pursuit of Power Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000 The University of Chicago Press ...
William H. McNeill is the Robert A. Milliken Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His many b ...
Contents Preface vii 1 Arms and Society in Antiquity^1 (^2) The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000– Market and Command in Medieva ...
vi Contents 7 The Initial Industrialization of War, 1840– Commercial and National Armaments Rivalries 224 A New Paradigm: The Pr ...
Preface The Pursuit of Power is meant to be a twin to my earlier book, Plagues and Peoples. The latter sought to discern major l ...
viii Preface is, disease-experienced, populations had a lethal advantage over iso lated communities whenever some new contact e ...
Preface ix over, since we must still make decisions every day, it probably helps to know a little more about how we got into our ...
x Preface and Balliol College, which afforded me the same hospitality during my tenure of the Eastman Professorship in 1980–81. ...
1 Arms and Society in Antiquity In a limited sense, the industrializa tion of war is almost as old as civilization, for the int ...
(^2) Chapter One in other words, mattered more than artisans. Public policy had to take into account relations with potential me ...
Arms and Society in Antiquity 3 A perpetual following of 54,000 men no doubt gave the great con queror an assured superiority o ...
4 Chapter One the flow of tax and rent payments in the regions through which it marched. Quite the contrary: it was the regular ...
Arms and Society in Antiquity^5 and places, division of resources between warfare and welfare^5 varied indefinitely in antiquity ...
6 Chapter One The craftsmen sat down and held a conference. Great weapons they cast. Axes of three talents each they cast. Great ...
Arms and Society in Antiquity 7 possess them. For many centuries, therefore, trade was largely con fined to exchanges of scarce ...
8 Chapter One canal, fortifying a city, or erecting a temple. This basic transfer of resources from the many to a few was supple ...
Arms and Society in Antiquity 9 ninety-day radius of action from his capital in Iran.^9 As a result, his campaigning season was ...
10 Chapter One but sturdy two-wheeled vehicles that could dash about the field of battle behind a team of galloping horses witho ...
Arms and Society in Antiquity 11 of “feudal” states, in which a small elite of chariot warriors exercised decisive military forc ...
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