The social history of the machine gun

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London: Pimlico, 1993Description: 186pISBN:
  • 0712656693 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: 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.Originally published: London: Croom Helm, 1976.
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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.Originally published: London: Croom Helm, 1976.

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