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Author:   John Landers (, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780199279579

ISBN 10:   0199279578
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   13 January 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction - Time, Space, and Population Part I: The Organic Economy and Demographic Space 2: Population Dynamics 3: Production and Technology 4: The Means of Transport 5: Trade and Traffic Part II: Military Technology 6: Battlefields before Gunpowder 7: The Gunpowder Revolution 8: Military Capital: Oars, Sails, Walls, and Guns Part III: Force, Power, and Space 9: War and the Organic Economy 10: Power and Space I: Expanding Control 11: Power and Space II: Maintaining Control Part IV: War, Population, and Resources 12: The Cost of War: Manpower and Resources 13: Population, Production, and Technology 14: The Cost of War: Mortality and Population Loss 15: Spending, Taxing, and Borrowing 16: Conclusion Bibliography Appendixes

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The Field and Forge is impressively wide-ranging. Lander's comparisons come together cogently and provide useful insights into the relationships between the larger societies and technological variables. ...a thought-provoking volume in upper-level courses on the history of technology, military technology, demographics, historical geography, or economic history. --Technology and Culture<br> Landers's prose is clear, and not overly encumbered with jargon. The author assits his readers by providing an exceptionally strong scaffolding of detailed chapter introductions, topical subsections, summaries, and conclusions.... His book is an ambitious and wide-ranging synthesis that is both thoughtful and thought provoking. --American Historical Review<br> Consistently intriguing, informative, and thought-provoking, and the author's prose style ranges from very good to outstanding. All historians who teach or write about the broad sweep of European history should read this book. -- Military History<br>

<br> The Field and Forge is impressively wide-ranging. Lander's comparisons come together cogently and provide useful insights into the relationships between the larger societies and technological variables. ...a thought-provoking volume in upper-level courses on the history of technology, military technology, demographics, historical geography, or economic history. --Technology and Culture<p><br> Landers's prose is clear, and not overly encumbered with jargon. The author assits his readers by providing an exceptionally strong scaffolding of detailed chapter introductions, topical subsections, summaries, and conclusions.... His book is an ambitious and wide-ranging synthesis that is both thoughtful and thought provoking. --American Historical Review<p><br> Consistently intriguing, informative, and thought-provoking, and the author's prose style ranges from very good to outstanding. All historians who teach or write about the broad sweep of European history should read this book. -- Mi

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