The word and the sword : how techniques of information and violence have shaped our world
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The word and the sword : how techniques of information and violence have shaped our world
（Studies in social discontinuity / general editor, Charles Tilly）
B. Blackwell, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How military and information innovations affect social transformation
This book explores how major social transformations are related to four categories of information innovation as well as four categories of military evolution. In The Word and the Sword, the author outlines the effects generated by methods of presenting information, such as writing, printing, and mass media. He also discusses four ways in which applications of violence, such as artillery and steam transport, have created societal change.
Table of Contents
- Ziggurats in the sand
- the age of Gilgamesh
- the shattered mirror
- hexagon dynamics
- the eclipse of the caravans
- sonderweg or railway
- the Petrograd paradox
- the atomization of America.
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