THROWING FIRE PROJECTILE TECHNOLOGY THROUGH HISTORY
Written by Alfred W. Crosby
Published by Cambridge University Press; Press Syndicate Of The University Of Cambridge
in 2002
ISBN: 0521791588
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THROWING FIRE PROJECTILE TECHNOLOGY THROUGH HISTORY
Written by Alfred W. Crosby.
Stock no. 2125837
1st.
2002.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Historian Crosby looks at hard, accurate throwing and the manipulation of fire as unique human capabilities. ISBN: 0521791588. Wrapper is edge-creased.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- Who, Why, and How
- 1. The Pliocene: Something New is Afoot
- The First Acceleration: Hominids Become a Keystone Species and Their Own Worse Enemies
- 2. The Pliocene and Pleistocene: "You Are What You Throw"
- 3. The Pleistocene and Holocene: "Cooking on Earth"
- 4. The Upper Paleolithic : "Humans ad 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