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How military and information innovations affect social transformation

This book explores how major social transformations are related to four categories of information innovation as well as four categories of military evolution. In The Word and the Sword, the author outlines the effects generated by methods of presenting information, such as writing, printing, and mass media. He also discusses four ways in which applications of violence, such as artillery and steam transport, have created societal change.



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Ziggurats in the sand; the age of Gilgamesh; the shattered mirror; hexagon dynamics; the eclipse of the caravans; sonderweg or railway; the Petrograd paradox; the atomization of America.

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/11/1991
      ISBN13: 9781557862464, 978-1557862464
      ISBN10: 155786246X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      How military and information innovations affect social transformation

      This book explores how major social transformations are related to four categories of information innovation as well as four categories of military evolution. In The Word and the Sword, the author outlines the effects generated by methods of presenting information, such as writing, printing, and mass media. He also discusses four ways in which applications of violence, such as artillery and steam transport, have created societal change.



      Table of Contents
      Ziggurats in the sand; the age of Gilgamesh; the shattered mirror; hexagon dynamics; the eclipse of the caravans; sonderweg or railway; the Petrograd paradox; the atomization of America.

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