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Of arms and men : a history of war, weapons and aggression.
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ISBN: 0195053591 9780195053593 Year: 1989 Publisher: New York Oxford university press

Ride of the second horseman : the birth and death of war
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ISBN: 019802293X 128047128X 9786610471287 1423739051 1602562717 0195119207 9780195119206 9781423739050 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Accurst be he that first invented war, wrote Christopher Marlowe--a declaration that most of us would take as a literary, not literal, construction. But in this sweeping overview of the rise of civilization, Robert O'Connell finds that war is indeed an invention--an institution that arose due to very specific historical circumstances, an institution that now verges on extinction. In Ride of the Second Horseman, O'Connell probes the distant human past to show how and why war arose. He begins with a definition that distinguishes between war and mere feuding: war involves group rather than indivi

Of arms and men : a history of war, weapons, and aggression
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ISBN: 9786612384301 1601296975 1423736281 1282384309 0198022042 9780195053609 0195053605 9781423736288 0195053591 9780195053593 6612384301 9781601296979 9781282384309 9780198022046 0199878900 9780199878901 Year: 1989 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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O'Connell's vividly written history of weapons in Western culture from prehistoric times to the nuclear age demonstrates how social and economic conditions determine the types of weapons and the tactics used in warfare and how, in turn, innovations in weapons technology often undercut social values. He integrates the evolution of politics, weapons, strategy, and tactics into a coherent narrative, one spiced with striking portraits of men in combat and brilliant insight into why men go to war.

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