The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
212 Chapter Six thus went far to shape the subsequent phases of the industrial revolu tion, allowing the improvement of steam e ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 213 Kingdom leaped upward from 14.5 million in 1791 to 18.1 million in 1811.^56 I ...
(^214) Chapter Six Thus it appears that the French learned to control births and the British learned how to employ a growing pop ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 215 after Napoleon s defeat in Russia. For however unpopular British financial an ...
216 Chapter Six society and government as well as of the army. A Hanoverian upstart, Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst (1755– ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 217 had been of long standing in every European army, since the technicalities of ...
218 Chapter Six sary to collect topographical and other intelligence, to study what had been done well or badly in campaigns of ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 219 of 1813–14, when a hastily raised army, in which civilians in uniform far out ...
220 Chapter Six of the war years was everywhere the order of the day, and no one supposed that industrial technology could be ha ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 221 followed the peace. Russia, for example, scarcely demobilized at all, maintai ...
222 Chapter Six change the last military residue of the revolution seemed safely buried.^67 The other armies of Europe were alre ...
7 The Initial Industrialization of War, 1840–84 In the 1840s the Prussian army and the French and British navies broke away from ...
224 Chapter Seven market system. Relatively minor resort to military force sufficed to open China, Japan, inner Asia, and Africa ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 225 tary matters. The reason was that from the 1830s private firms vigor ously set about the ...
226 Chapter Seven the British navy supreme on the seas was firmly in place and func tioning. Why, then, embrace untried devices ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 227 erful guns by armoring their ships of war. This in turn required more and more powerful st ...
228 Chapter Seven These illustrations register the onset of the age of steam and iron in naval design. Above, opposite page. H.M ...
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230 Chapter Seven Little changed technically; but then, other European armies also re mained generally content with the weapons ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 231 other hand, the three initial battles of Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman, which cooped the R ...
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