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020			_a9781541672963 _qhardcover
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092			_a355.8209 _bL816
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aLockhart, Paul, _eauthor. _915131
245	1	0	_aFirepower : _bhow weapons shaped warfare / _cPaul Lockhart.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBasic Books, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_axii, 624 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of military technology from the Renaissance to the dawn of the atomic era -- five-hundred-year-long "age of firepower" during which the evolution of weaponry transformed the conduct of warfare in the West. Weapons technology had always influenced warfare. But the introduction of gunpowder weapons at the close of the Middle Ages made military technology the largest single factor shaping warfare's tactics, strategy, and logistics. Over the five centuries leading up to World War II, the art of war revolved around the ever-more-effective delivery of firepower, and the driving force of weapons development was the compulsion to make that possible. But for centuries, even as it became more effective, military weaponry remained simple and affordable enough that nearly any state could afford to equip a respectable army; weapons could be used and used again until they physically wore out. That all changed, very suddenly, around 1870. Widespread industrialization and rapid advances in metallurgy and chemistry meant that by the start of World War I, only a handful of great powers could afford to manufacture their own weapons. Revolutions in military technology, in short, triggered a revolution in the structure of power in the West, significantly reducing the number of nations that could act assertively in international politics -- and reducing the others to a condition of permanent subordination. Going beyond the battlefield to consider the profound political and social contexts of armed conflict, Firepower ultimately reveals how the evolution of weapons technology, and the uses to which it has been put, have together transformed human history"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aFirepower _zEurope _xHistory.
650		0	_aMilitary weapons _zEurope _xHistory.
650		0	_aFirepower _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aMilitary weapons _zUnited States _xHistory.
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