Jeremy Black

War and Technology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining military technologies in their historical context and the present centered on the Revolution in Military Affairs and Military Transformation, Black then forecasts possible future trends.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 679g
• ISBN-13: 9780253009845
• ISBN-10: 0253009847
• Artikelnr.: 36839458

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Black

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Key Themes
1. Early Modern Western Warships: Technologies of Power Projection and
Lethality
2. Gunpowder Technology, 1490-1800
3. Firepower, Steamships, Railways, Telegraphs, Radio: Technologies of
Killing, Logistics, Command, and Control, 1775-1945
4. The Internal Combustion Engine: The Technology of Decentralized Power,
1910-2013
5. A New Sphere: Air Power, 1903-2013
6. Revolution, Transformation, and the Present
7. Into the Future
Conclusions
Postscript
Notes
Selected Further Reading
Index