The Word and the Sword: How Techniques of Information and Violence (Studies in Social Discontinuity)

by Leonard Dudley (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1991

  $51.40

  Shows how major changes in the course of history have been determined by eight significant innovations: four new ways of dealing with information - writing, printing, mass media and integrated circuits; and four new modes of violence - metal weapons, artillery, steam transport and heavy cavalry.