Throwing fire : a history of projectile technology /
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| Author / Creator: | Crosby, Alfred W. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002. |
| Description: | xii, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4682106 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Who, Why, and How
- 1.. The Pliocene: Something New Is Afoot
- The First Acceleration: Hominids Become a Keystone Species and Their Own Worst Enemies
- 2.. The Pliocene and Pleistocene: "You Are What You Throw"
- 3.. The Pleistocene and Holocene: "Cooking the Earth"
- 4.. The Upper Paleolithic: "Humans and Other Catastrophes"
- 5.. From Weapon Craftsmanship to Weapon Technology
- The Second Acceleration: Gunpowder
- 6.. The Chinese Elixir
- 7.. Gunpowder as a Centripetal Force
- 8.. Brown Bess to Big Bertha
- The Third Acceleration: Into Extraterrestrial and Subatomic Space
- 9.. The V-2 and the Bomb
- 10.. The Longest Throws
- The Fourth Acceleration
- Index
