Name: THROWING FIRE PROJECTILE TECHNOLOGY THROUGH HISTORY
SKU: 2125837
Price: 12.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

THROWING FIRE PROJECTILE TECHNOLOGY THROUGH HISTORY

by Alfred W. Crosby

Published by Cambridge University Press; Press Syndicate Of The University Of Cambridge. 1st. 2002

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.

Wrapper is edge-creased.

ISBN: 0521791588
Stock no. 2125837

Buy now for £12.00

Enquire about this book

Add to Wish List

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