Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare
Paul Lockhart
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The βfascinatingβ (Wall Street Journal) story of how military technology has transformed the world
The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. Inβ―Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of the evolution of weaponryΒ and how itΒ transformedΒ not onlyΒ the conduct of warfareΒ but also the very structure of powerΒ in the West,Β from the Renaissance to the dawn of the atomic era.Β
Across this period, improvementsΒ inΒ firepowerΒ shapedΒ theΒ evolving art of war.Β ForΒ centuries, weaponryΒ hadΒ remained simple enough that any state could equip a respectable army.Β That all changed around 1870,Β whenΒ the cost of investing in increasingly complicated technologyΒ soonΒ meantΒ thatΒ only a handful of great powers could afford to manufactureΒ advancedΒ weaponry,Β while other countries fell behind.β―Going beyond the battlefield,Β FirepowerΒ ultimatelyΒ revealsΒ howΒ changes inΒ weapons technologyΒ reshapedΒ human history.Β
The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. Inβ―Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of the evolution of weaponryΒ and how itΒ transformedΒ not onlyΒ the conduct of warfareΒ but also the very structure of powerΒ in the West,Β from the Renaissance to the dawn of the atomic era.Β
Across this period, improvementsΒ inΒ firepowerΒ shapedΒ theΒ evolving art of war.Β ForΒ centuries, weaponryΒ hadΒ remained simple enough that any state could equip a respectable army.Β That all changed around 1870,Β whenΒ the cost of investing in increasingly complicated technologyΒ soonΒ meantΒ thatΒ only a handful of great powers could afford to manufactureΒ advancedΒ weaponry,Β while other countries fell behind.β―Going beyond the battlefield,Β FirepowerΒ ultimatelyΒ revealsΒ howΒ changes inΒ weapons technologyΒ reshapedΒ human history.Β
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Paul Lockhartβ―isΒ professorΒ ofΒ historyΒ at Wright State University, where he has taught military and European history forΒ thirty-oneΒ years.Β The authorΒ of six books on the role of war in history, includingβ―TheΒ Drillmaster of Valley Forgeβ―andβ―The Whites of Their Eyes,Β LockhartΒ lives in Dayton, Ohio.Β
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