Author: Harold Leslie PetersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Pageant of the Gun
Author: Harold Leslie PetersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Pageant of the Gun
Author: Harold Leslie PetersonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780385070683
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Pageant of the Gun. A Treasury of Stories of Firearms
Author: Harold Leslie PetersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Story of Guns
Author: Katherine McLean BrevardPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 0756543134
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
When the Chinese invented gunpowder in 850, their explosive invention became the basis for almost every weapon used in war. It radically changed warfare all over the world, affecting the way battles were fought throughout the Middle Ages. When guns were invented five centuries later, the world was again transformed. Explosive weaponry was available to the individual, creating a new class of soldier and giving birth to the modern army.
Sporting Pageant
Author: Terence HorsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Firearms
Author: Roger PaulyPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801888360
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
With graphic prints, photographs, a timeline, and a glossary, this engaging and insightful technography sheds light on one of the most important inventions in the history of the human race.
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen
Author: Linda ColleyPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1324092386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted narratives and uncovering the close connections between the making of constitutions and the making of war. In the process, Linda Colley both reappraises famous constitutions and recovers those that have been marginalized but were central to the rise of a modern world. She brings to the fore neglected sites, such as Corsica, with its pioneering constitution of 1755, and tiny Pitcairn Island in the Pacific, the first place on the globe permanently to enfranchise women. She highlights the role of unexpected players, such as Catherine the Great of Russia, who was experimenting with constitutional techniques with her enlightened Nakaz decades before the Founding Fathers framed the American constitution. Written constitutions are usually examined in relation to individual states, but Colley focuses on how they crossed boundaries, spreading into six continents by 1918 and aiding the rise of empires as well as nations. She also illumines their place not simply in law and politics but also in wider cultural histories, and their intimate connections with print, literary creativity, and the rise of the novel. Colley shows how—while advancing epic revolutions and enfranchising white males—constitutions frequently served over the long nineteenth century to marginalize indigenous people, exclude women and people of color, and expropriate land. Simultaneously, though, she investigates how these devices were adapted by peoples and activists outside the West seeking to resist European and American power. She describes how Tunisia generated the first modern Islamic constitution in 1861, quickly suppressed, but an influence still on the Arab Spring; how Africanus Horton of Sierra Leone—inspired by the American Civil War—devised plans for self-governing nations in West Africa; and how Japan’s Meiji constitution of 1889 came to compete with Western constitutionalism as a model for Indian, Chinese, and Ottoman nationalists and reformers. Vividly written and handsomely illustrated, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen is an absorbing work that—with its pageant of formative wars, powerful leaders, visionary lawmakers and committed rebels—retells the story of constitutional government and the evolution of ideas of what it means to be modern.
The Guns of Harpers Ferry
Author: Stuart E. BrownPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 080634640X
Category : Armories
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This standard history of Bath County. Of greatest genealogical import are the chapters devoted to the names of heads of families in Bath in 1782, early marriage records, a roster of Confederate soldiers, and a list of families in Greater Bath.
Arms and Armaments
Author: Duane A. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arms and armor
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Machine Guns
Author: James H. WillbanksPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1851094857
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The machine gun—often called the killing machine—revolutionized modern ground combat, brought an end to the traditional infantry and cavalry charge, and changed the battlefields of war forever. This volume in the Weapons and Warfare series describes the history of machine guns from the mid-19th century to the present, following both the evolution of small arms technology and the impact of machine guns on the battlefield, on military strategy, and on human society. This book discusses subjects ranging from the forerunners of mechanical and automatic guns, to the unusual history of the Civil War-era Gatling gun (the first practical machine gun, not used by the Union army because Gatling was a Southerner), to the machine guns developed for the world wars and those for present day use. Readers will see how the advent of the machine gun revolutionized ground combat—and how in some instances, technology outran tactics and doctrines, with disastrous consequences.