PDF-[BOOK]-The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000

st Technology Armed Force Society since AD 1000In this magnificent synthesis of military technological and social history William H McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbowbanned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians to use against one anotherto the nuclear missile from the sociological consequences of drill in the seventeenth century to the emergence of the militaryindustrial complex in the twentieth His central argument is that a commercial transformation of world society in the eleventh century caused military activity to respond increasingly to market forces as well as to the commands of rulers Only in our own time suggests McNeill are command economies replacing the market control of largescale human effort The Pursuit of Power does not solve the problems of the present but its discoveries hypotheses and sheer breadth of learning do offer a perspective on our current fears and as McNeill hopes a ground for wiser action No summary can do justice to McNeills intricate encyclopedic treatment McNeills erudition is stunning as he moves easily from European to Chinese and Islamic cultures and from military and technological to socioeconomic and political developments The result is a grand synthesis of sweeping proportions and interdisciplinary character that tells us almost as much about the history of butter as the history of guns McNeills larger accomplishment is to remind us that all humankind has a shared past and particularly with regard to its choice of weapons and warfare a shared stake in the futureStuart Rochester Washington Post Book World Mr McNeills comprehensiveness and sensitivity do for the reader what Henry James said that Turgenevs conversation did for him they suggest all sorts of valuable things This narrative of rationality applied to irrational purposes and of ingenuity cannibalizing itself is a work of clarity which delineates mysteries The greatest of them to my mind is why human beings have never learned to cherish their own speciesNaomi Bliven The New Yorker. «. 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McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow—banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians to use against one another—to the nuclear missile, from the sociological consequences of drill in the seventeenth century to the emergence of the military-industrial complex in the twentieth. His central argument is that a commercial transformation of world society in the eleventh century caused military activity to respond increasingly to market forces as well as to the commands of rulers. Only in our own time, suggests McNeill, are command economies replacing the market control of large-scale human effort. The Pursuit of Power does not solve the problems of the present, but its discoveries, hypotheses, and sheer breadth of learning do offer a perspective on our current fears and, as McNeill hopes, a ground for wiser action. No summary can do justice to McNeill\'s intricate, encyclopedic treatment. . . . McNeill\'s erudition is stunning, as he moves easily from European to Chinese and Islamic cultures and from military and technological to socio-economic and political developments. The result is a grand synthesis of sweeping proportions and interdisciplinary character that tells us almost as much about the history of butter as the history of guns. . . . McNeill\'s larger accomplishment is to remind us that all humankind has a shared past and, particularly with regard to its choice of weapons and warfare, a shared stake in the future.—Stuart Rochester, Washington Post Book World Mr. McNeill\'s comprehensiveness and sensitivity do for the reader what Henry James said that Turgenev\'s conversation did for him: they suggest \'all sorts of valuable things.\' This narrative of rationality applied to irrational purposes and of ingenuity cannibalizing itself is a work of clarity, which delineates mysteries. The greatest of them, to my mind, is why human beings have never learned to cherish their own species.—Naomi Bliven, The New Yorker The Covenant sets out the relationship between the nation, the government and the Armed Forces. It recognises that the whole nation has a moral obligation to members of the Armed Forces and their families, and it establishes how they should expect to be treated. .