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Johns Hopkins Univ 1975 Softcover Very Good Condition Has bookstore sticker on spine and back cover. Text appears clean, but may contain minor marks that we missed. Light Shelf Wear, Looks Very Nice. 192 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0801833582. ISBN/EAN: 9780801833588. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561056502.

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Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, Date: 1986. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 200 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. 1986. Johns Hopkins Univ Pr ISBN 0801833582 9780801833588 [GB]

ISBN10: 0801833582, ISBN13: 9780801833588, [publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr] Softcover reprint edition. 200 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.
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ISBN10: 0801833582, ISBN13: 9780801833588, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD] Softcover Paperback. In this stunning account of the human impact of a single machine, John Ellis argues that the history of technology and military history are "part and parcel of social history in general." The Social History of the Machine Gun, now with a new foreword by Edward C. Ezell, provides an original and fascinating interpretation of weaponry, warfare, and society in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Europe and America.From its beginning, the machine gun threatened established assumptions about the nature of war. In spite of its highly effective use in the European colonization of Africa, the machine gun was resisted by military elites, who clung to "the old certanties of the battlefieldthe glorious change and opportunities for individual heroism." These values were carried into the trenches of World War I and swept away along with a generation of soldiers.After the war, machine guns became commercially availble in America and in many ways became a symbol of the times. Advertisements touted the Thompson submachine gun as the ideal weapon for protecting factory and farm, while "tommy guns" entered the culture's imagination with Machine Gun Kelly and Boonie and Clyde. More significantly, Ellis suggests, the machine gun was the catalyst for the modern arms race. It necessitated a technological response: first the armored ...

Johns Hopkins University Press, Date: 1986-08-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1986. Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN 0801833582 9780801833588 [US]