Instruments of war : weapons and technologies that have changed history
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Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015].
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In war, the weapons and technologies employed have direct effects on how battles are waged. When new weapons are introduced, they can dramatically alter the outcomes of warfare—and consequently change the course of history itself. This reference work provides a fascinating overview of the major weapon systems and military technologies that have had a major impact on world history.
Addressing weapons as crude as the club used by primitive man to the high-tech weapons of today such as unmanned drones, Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History offers nearly 270 profusely illustrated entries that examine the key roles played by specific weapons and identify their success and failures. The book begins with an introductory essay that frames the subject matter of the work and discusses the history of weapons as a whole. The text is concise and accessible to general readers without extensive backgrounds in military history yet provides the detailed information necessary to convey the complexity of the evolution of warfare through technological change.
This highly detailed and well-illustrated single-volume work documents the evolution of warfare across history through weaponry and technological change.
In war, the weapons and technologies employed have direct effects on how battles are waged. When new weapons are introduced, they can dramatically alter the outcomes of warfare—and consequently change the course of history itself. This reference work provides a fascinating overview of the major weapon systems and military technologies that have had a major impact on world history.
Addressing weapons as crude as the club used by primitive man to the high-tech weapons of today such as unmanned drones, Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History offers nearly 270 profusely illustrated entries that examine the key roles played by specific weapons and identify their success and failures. The book begins with an introductory essay that frames the subject matter of the work and discusses the history of weapons as a whole. The text is concise and accessible to general readers without extensive backgrounds in military history yet provides the detailed information necessary to convey the complexity of the evolution of warfare through technological change.
- Provides a bibliography and index
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English
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9781440836558
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
This work documents the evolution of warfare across history through weaponry and technological change.
Table of Contents
Club and mace -- Ax -- Sling -- Spears and other pole arms -- Pilum -- Throwing sticks or throwing clubs -- Picks and war hammers -- Dagger (knife) -- Sword -- Lance -- Bow and arrow -- Blowgun -- Shields -- Helmet -- Body armor -- Chariot -- Galley -- Trireme -- Corvus -- Greek fire -- Mechanical artillery -- Spring-powered artillery engines -- Torsion-powered artillery engines -- Counterweight-powered artillery engines -- Saddle -- Stirrup -- Viking longboat -- Caltrop -- Gunpowder -- Land mines and mining -- Longbow -- Crossbow -- Harquebus -- Matchlock -- Wheel lock -- Snaplock (snaphance) -- Pistols, early types -- Land artillery, early gunpowder types -- Leather gun -- Fuzes -- Petard -- Pike -- Carrack -- Galleon -- Naval artillery, early types -- Gunner's quadrant -- Turtle ships -- Frigate -- Ship of the line -- Mortars, early -- Bomb vessels -- Howitzer -- Shell -- Shrapnel (spherical case shot) -- Carcass -- Case shot (canister or canister shot) -- Grapeshot -- Flintlock -- Air gun -- Rifle (muzzle-loader) -- Blunderbuss -- Bayonet -- Turtle submarine -- Sea mines -- Balloons -- Popham's signal system -- Steam warship -- Percussion cap -- Rockets, early types -- Carronade -- Shell gun -- Railroads -- Telegraph -- Telephone -- Ironclad warships -- Warrior, HMS -- Naval gun turret -- Monitor, USS -- Minie ball -- Revolver -- Napoleon gun -- Parrott guns -- Dahlgren guns -- Breech-loading rifle -- Dreyse needle gun -- Cartridge -- Dynamite -- Gatling gun -- Mitrailleuse -- Lebel rifle -- Mauser Gewehr 98 rifle -- Mauser C96 pistol -- Maxim gun -- Steel armor, naval -- Armor-piercing projectiles -- Quick-firing naval gun -- Torpedo -- Torpedo boats -- Destroyer -- Dynamite gun -- Smokeless gunpowder -- Trinitrotoluene -- Bicycle -- Breech-loading field artillery -- French 75mm gun -- Breech-loading heavy guns at sea -- Dumdum bullet -- Hollow or shaped charge -- Browning (Colt) .45 semiautomatic pistol -- Lewis gun -- Browning Automatic Rifle -- MP18 submachine gun -- Barbed wire -- Sandbags -- Camouflage -- Pillbox -- Hand grenades -- Rifle grenade -- Stokes mortar -- Big Bertha mortar -- Paris gun -- Poison gas -- Livens projector -- Flamethrowers -- Motor transport -- Armored car -- Tanks, early -- Antitank rifle -- Antimaterial rifle -- Wright brothers' Military Flyer -- Aircraft, World War I -- Fokker E.I Eindecker fighter aircraft -- Interrupter gear -- De Havilland DH 2 fighter aircraft -- Nieuport 17 fighter aircraft -- Sopwith F.1 Camel fighter aircraft -- Sikorsky Ilya Mourometz heavy bomber -- Gotha G IV bomber -- Handley Page O/100 and O/400 bombers -- Zeppelins -- Director fire control and new range finding at sea -- Dreadnought, HMS -- Invincible-class battle cruisers -- Furious, HMS -- Argus, HMS -- Submarine development to 1914 -- Depth charge -- Hydrophone -- Radio -- Antiaircraft artillery -- Browning M2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun -- Molotov cocktail -- Biological weapons -- German 88mm gun -- M-2A1/M-101A1 105mm howitzer -- Long Lance torpedo -- Thompson M1A1 submachine gun -- MP40 submachine gun -- Sten gun -- M1 Garand rifle -- MG42 machine gun -- Mortars, post-World War I --
T-34 Soviet medium tank
M4 Sherman medium tank
PzKpfw V Panther medium tank
PzKpfw Tiger and King Tiger
Self-propelled guns and artillery
Birch gun
Jeep
Truck, 2.5-ton
Landing craft
DUKW amphibian truck
Mulberry
PLUTO
Destroyer escort
Yamato-class battleships, Japanese
Iowa-class battleships, U.S. Navy
Essex-class aircraft carriers
Escort aircraft carriers
Liberty ships
Snorkel
Sonar
Leigh light
Radar
A6M Reisen (Zero) Japanese fighter aircraft
Bf 109 German fighter
Junkers Ju 87 Stuka German dive-bomber
Hawker Hurricane British fighter
Supermarine Spitfire British fighter
North American P-51 Mustang U.S. Army Air Forces fighter
Grumman F6F Hellcat U.S. Navy fighter
Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik Soviet ground-attack aircraft
Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger U.S. torpedo bomber
Avro Lancaster heavy bomber
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber
Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber
Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber
Gliders
Jet and rocket aircraft of World War II
Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft
Helicopters
Sikorsky R-4 helicopter
Incendiary bombs
Napalm
Proximity fuze
Panzerfaust
Bazooka
Katyusha rocket
V-1 buzz bomb
V-2 guided missile
Kamikazes
Penicillin
Enigma machine
Atomic bomb
Hydrogen bomb
Neutron bomb
AK47 Kalashnikov assault rifle
Recoilless rifles
Armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
North American F-86 Sabre jet fighter
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
Surface-to-air missiles
Nautilus, U.S. Navy submarine
Punji stake
M16 rifle
M79 grenade launcher
M18A1 claymore mine
M61 Vulcan 20mm auto cannon
M134 (GAU-2B) minigun
Ship-to-ship missiles
RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade launcher
Antitank guided missiles
Flechette ammunition
Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady reconnaissance aircraft
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
Republic F-105 Thunderchief
Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter
Bell AH-1 Cobra and AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopters
Mil Mi-24 Hind helicopter
FIM-92 Stinger
AIM-9 Sidewinder missile
Satellites
Intercontinental ballistic missiles
MX missile system
Cruise missiles
Polaris missile
Precision-guided munitions
Cluster bomb/munition
M48 and M60 U.S. main battle tanks
T-54/T-55 Soviet main battle tank
M1A1 and M1A2 Abrams main battle tank
Merkava Israeli main battle tank
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter
Hughes (McDonnell Douglas/Boeing) AH-64 Apache helicopter
Hawker-Siddeley/McDonnell Douglas Sea Harrier
Night-vision devices
Aegis
Mk 15 Phalanx
Hovercraft
Nimitz-class U.S. Navy aircraft carriers
Ohio-class U.S. Navy submarines
Laser
Stealth technology
Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit
Global positioning system
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Panzerhaubitze 2000 German self-propelled howitzer
Thermobaric bomb
Improvised explosive devices.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Tucker, S. (2015). Instruments of war: weapons and technologies that have changed history . ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tucker, Spencer, 1937-. 2015. Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tucker, Spencer, 1937-. Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Tucker, S. (2015). Instruments of war: weapons and technologies that have changed history. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Tucker, Spencer. Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015.
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