The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000 - Tapa blanda

McNeill, William H.

 
9780226561585: The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
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ISBN 10: 0226561585 ISBN 13: 9780226561585
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1984

Sinopsis

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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William H. McNeill is the Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and the College at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Pursuit of Power, The Rise of the West, and Mythistory and Other Essays, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
1984
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226561585
ISBN 13 
9780226561585
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Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
416
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