The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
(^152) Chapter Fire The really important result of the balance between superior armed force and almost untrammeled commercial se ...
Stmins on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence^153 uated African states also clearly tended to grow, thanks in part to access ...
(^154) Chapter Five than Russia’s portion (the Ukraine and grasslands eastward into cen tral Asia). As for Poland, internal qua ...
Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence 155 the leap to great-power status came only when Frederick the Great (r. 1740 ...
(^156) Chapter Five Their mutual distrust made it easy for Russia to use the army that Peter the Great had successfully remodele ...
Strains on Europe’s Bureaucratization of Violence 157 their superiors’ instructions by adhering to familiar methods of work, and ...
158 Chapter Five trality” that was inimical to British interests. By 1783, Great Britain was compelled to admit defeat and recog ...
Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence 159 military organization had become apparent. One of these was the difficulty ...
160 Chapter Five not normally set limits on military enterprise. Costs of such items were comparatively small.^15 Food, fodder, ...
Strains on Europe 's Bureaucratization of Violence 161 were all connected with and sustained by a fourth limit: the sociologi c ...
(^162) Chapter Five mapped on such a scale as to allow a commander in the held to plan each day’s march from a map.^18 Neverthel ...
Strains on Europe's Bureaucrat hat ion of Violence 163 which the deployment of infantry, cavalry, artillery, and supporting elem ...
164 Chapter Five be sure, state control and direction was far more pervasive on the Continent than in Great Britain;^22 but even ...
Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence 165 over more and more aspects of French military administration, even though ...
166 Chapter Five sporadic sharpshooting before regular battle had been joined. Other armies soon began to create “light infantry ...
Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence 167 appeared on the battlefield. Their main use was to defend and attack fortr ...
Cannon-Boring Machinery This diagram shows how to bore out a cannon with machinery similar to the device invented by Jean Maritz ...
Blast Furnace Design This diagram of blast furnaces at the French naval gun foundry at Ruelle shows the capital plant that began ...
170 Chapter Fire Smaller amounts of gunpowder could thus accomplish equivalent work even within a shortened gun barrel; and a sm ...
Stmins on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence 171 were an important element in French victories from the Cannonade of Valmy ( ...
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