War and technology [electronic resource] / Jeremy Black.
Material type: TextPublication details: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780253009890
- 355/.07 23
- U800 .B573 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the key themes -- Early modern western warships: technologies of power projection and lethality -- Gunpowder technology, 1490-1800 -- Firepower, steamships, railways, telegraphs, radio: technologies of killing, logistics, command, and control, 1775-1945 -- The internal combustion engine: the technology of decentralized power, 1910-2013 -- A new sphere: air power, 1903-2013 -- Revolution, transformation, and the present -- Into the future -- Conclusions -- Postscript.
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