Firepower: how weapons shaped warfare
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 whi...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
PREFACE
IX
INTRODUCTION
THE
AGE
OF
THE
GUN
1
BOOK
1.
THE
GUNPOWDER
REVOLUTION,
1300-1800
CHAPTER
I
THE
BOMBARD
AND
THE
FORTRESS
17
CHAPTER
2
THE
SHIP-KILLING
SHIP
40
CHAPTER
3
PIKE
AND
SHOT
66
CHAPTER
4
MUSKET,
BAYONET,
AND
FIELD
GUN
94
CHAPTER
5
THE
MILITARY REVOLUTION
122
BOOK
II. THE
AGE
OF
REVOLUTIONS,
1800-1870
CHAPTER
6 WAR
AND
TECHNOLOGY
IN
THE
AGE
OF
REVOLUTIONS
CHAPTER
7
THE
RIFLE
AND
THE
BULLET
CHAPTER
8
SHOT
AND
SHELL
CHAPTER
9
IRONCLAD
VII
$
BIIOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
HLUENCHE A
139
154
192
211
CONTENTS
BOOK III.
THE REVOLUTION
IN
FIREPOWER,
1870-1918
CHAPTER
10
THE GREAT ARMS RACE
AND
THE
GREAT
WAR
235
CHAPTER
II
THE
RIFLE
AND
THE
BULLET
REVISITED
251
CHAPTER
12
FULL AUTO
283
CHAPTER
13
HIGH EXPLOSIVE
311
CHAPTER
14
DREADNOUGHT
AND
U-BOAT
345
CHAPTER
15
THE
EMERGING
TECHNOLOGIES:
AIR
AND
ARMOR
380
BOOK IV. THE
TWILIGHT
OF
FIREPOWER,
1918-1945
CHAPTER
16
THE
LESSONS
OF
THE
GREAT
WAR
425
CHAPTER
17
PORTABLE
FIREPOWER
438
CHAPTER
18
THE
BIG GUNS
470
CHAPTER
19
AIRPOWER
501
CHAPTER
20
THE TWILIGHT
OF
THE
BATTLESHIP
534
EPILOGUE
555
NOTES
563
INDEX
579
VIII
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CONTENTS
PREFACE
IX
INTRODUCTION
THE
AGE
OF
THE
GUN
1
BOOK
1.
THE
GUNPOWDER
REVOLUTION,
1300-1800
CHAPTER
I
THE
BOMBARD
AND
THE
FORTRESS
17
CHAPTER
2
THE
SHIP-KILLING
SHIP
40
CHAPTER
3
PIKE
AND
SHOT
66
CHAPTER
4
MUSKET,
BAYONET,
AND
FIELD
GUN
94
CHAPTER
5
THE
MILITARY REVOLUTION
122
BOOK
II. THE
AGE
OF
REVOLUTIONS,
1800-1870
CHAPTER
6 WAR
AND
TECHNOLOGY
IN
THE
AGE
OF
REVOLUTIONS
CHAPTER
7
THE
RIFLE
AND
THE
BULLET
CHAPTER
8
SHOT
AND
SHELL
CHAPTER
9
IRONCLAD
VII
$
BIIOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
HLUENCHE'A
139
154
192
211
CONTENTS
BOOK III.
THE REVOLUTION
IN
FIREPOWER,
1870-1918
CHAPTER
10
THE GREAT ARMS RACE
AND
THE
GREAT
WAR
235
CHAPTER
II
THE
RIFLE
AND
THE
BULLET
REVISITED
251
CHAPTER
12
FULL AUTO
283
CHAPTER
13
HIGH EXPLOSIVE
311
CHAPTER
14
DREADNOUGHT
AND
U-BOAT
345
CHAPTER
15
THE
EMERGING
TECHNOLOGIES:
AIR
AND
ARMOR
380
BOOK IV. THE
TWILIGHT
OF
FIREPOWER,
1918-1945
CHAPTER
16
THE
LESSONS
OF
THE
GREAT
WAR
425
CHAPTER
17
PORTABLE
FIREPOWER
438
CHAPTER
18
THE
BIG GUNS
470
CHAPTER
19
AIRPOWER
501
CHAPTER
20
THE TWILIGHT
OF
THE
BATTLESHIP
534
EPILOGUE
555
NOTES
563
INDEX
579
VIII |
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