About this title: 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 ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
Edition: 2nd ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780226561585ISBN:0226561585
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. No tears or highlighting or remainder mark. Very good corners, spine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 416 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780226561578ISBN:0226561577
Description: Good in Good DJ. 0226561577. Edge & surface wear. Staining to end pages. Bumping and wear to edges and corners. DJ has tears in back. Spine cocked.; 405 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
Publisher: U Chicago Press
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780226561578ISBN:0226561577
Description: VG/VG. 0226561577. Light general wear, but a nice clean copy with bright interior pages.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 405 pages; MILITARY history. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780226561578ISBN:0226561577
Description: Good+ No Jacket. Type: Ex-Library Ex-library copy indicated by various stickers and pocket inside back cover, oranged boards show light wear at tips, no slant, interior new looking, clean tight and unmarked, 405 pages no age toning. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780226561578ISBN:0226561577
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0226561577. Cloth hardcovers are clean and sharp, no wear. Ink name on half-title page, else interior clean and tight. Dustjacket has smudge on front panel, else fine.; 8vo. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780226561578ISBN:0226561577
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Very minor chipping to the dust jacket along the edges. Back corner at the bottom is bumped. Clean text and apparently unread copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Description: FINE in NEAR FINE jacket. 1982. First Edition. First printing. Red Cloth hardcover with black lettering. Dust jacket now protected in clear plastic BRODART cover. Original price to front endflap. Grey endpapers. 405pp. Index. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1984-09-15
ISBN-13:9780226561585ISBN:0226561585
Description: Very Good. Crayon price on flyleaf, otherwise like new, pages are very good (no marks or highlighting), trade edition, not ex-library, not remaindered. In stock, ships same or next day. read more
"Excellent history of the political-technological forces that shaped warfare, particularly after 1000 AD. However, even considering that this book was written in the early 1980s, one is underwhelmed by the author's conclusion that states which implement centralized economic control are strategically superior to those that don't."
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