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Ellis, John

 
9780801833588: The Social History of the Machine Gun
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ISBN 10: 0801833582 ISBN 13: 9780801833588
Editorial: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986

Sinopsis

In this stunning account of the human impact of a single machine, John Ellis argues that the history of technology and military history are "part and parcel of social history in general." The Social History of the Machine Gun, now with a new foreword by Edward C. Ezell, provides an original and fascinating interpretation of weaponry, warfare, and society in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Europe and America.

From its beginning, the machine gun threatened established assumptions about the nature of war. In spite of its highly effective use in the European colonization of Africa, the machine gun was resisted by military elites, who clung to "the old certanties of the battlefield—the glorious change and opportunities for individual heroism." These values were carried into the trenches of World War I and swept away along with a generation of soldiers.

After the war, machine guns became commercially availble in America and in many ways became a symbol of the times. Advertisements touted the Thompson submachine gun as the ideal weapon for protecting factory and farm, while "tommy guns" entered the culture's imagination with Machine Gun Kelly and Boonie and Clyde. More significantly, Ellis suggests, the machine gun was the catalyst for the modern arms race. It necessitated a technological response: first the armored tank, then the jet fighter, and, perhaps ultimately, the hydrogen bomb.

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John Ellis is the author of The Social History of the Machine Gun and Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I.

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Editorial
Johns Hopkins University Press
Año de publicación
1986
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0801833582
ISBN 13 
9780801833588
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
200
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