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War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way into a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been translated into more than 40 different languages. The series began in 1995, and now covers a wide variety of topics in every discipline. The VSI library now contains over 450 volumes—a Very Short Introduction to everything from Indian philosophy to psychology and American history and relativity—and continues to grow in every subject area. Very Short Introductions available now: ACCOUNTING Christopher Nobes ANAESTHESIA Aidan O’Donnell ADOLESCENCE Peter K. Smith ANARCHISM Colin Ward ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher ANCIENT ASSYRIA Karen Radner AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGION ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw Eddie S. Glaude Jr ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART AND AFRICAN HISTORY ARCHITECTURE Christina Riggs John Parker and Richard Rathbone ANCIENT GREECE Paul Cartledge AFRICAN RELIGIONS Jacob K. Olupona THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AGNOSTICISM Robin Le Poidevin Amanda H. Podany AGRICULTURE ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas Paul Brassley and Richard Soffe ANCIENT WARFARE ALEXANDER THE GREAT Harry Sidebottom Hugh Bowden ANGELS David Albert Jones ALGEBRA Peter M. Higgins ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman AMERICAN HISTORY Paul S. Boyer THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair AMERICAN IMMIGRATION THE ANIMAL KINGDOM David A. Gerber Peter Holland AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia G. Edward White THE ANTARCTIC Klaus Dodds AMERICAN POLITICAL ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller HISTORY Donald Critchlow ANXIETY Daniel Freeman AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES and Jason Freeman AND ELECTIONS L. Sandy Maisel THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS AMERICAN POLITICS Paul Foster Richard M. Valelly ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne Charles O. Jones ARISTOCRACY William Doyle THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes Robert J. Allison ART HISTORY Dana Arnold AMERICAN SLAVERY ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland Heather Andrea Williams ASTROBIOLOGY David C. Catling THE AMERICAN WEST Stephen Aron ASTROPHYSICS James Binney AMERICAN WOMEN’S HISTORY ATHEISM Julian Baggini Susan Ware AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick AUSTRALIA Kenneth Morgan CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy AUTISM Uta Frith CIVIL ENGINEERING David Muir Wood THE AVANT GARDE David Cottington CLASSICAL LITERATURE William Allan THE AZTECS Davíd Carrasco CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY BABYLONIA Trevor Bryce Helen Morales BACTERIA Sebastian G. B. Amyes CLASSICS Mary Beard and BARTHES Jonathan Culler John Henderson THE BEATS David Sterritt CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard BEAUTY Roger Scruton CLIMATE Mark Maslin BESTSELLERS John Sutherland CLIMATE CHANGE Mark Maslin THE BIBLE John Riches COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY Eric H. Cline Richard Passingham BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon BLACK HOLES Katherine Blundell COLONIAL AMERICA Alan Taylor BLOOD Chris Cooper COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN THE BLUES Elijah Wald LITERATURE Rolena Adorno THE BODY Chris Shilling COMBINATORICS Robin Wilson THE BOOK OF MORMON COMEDY Matthew Bevis Terryl Givens COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes BORDERS Alexander C. Diener and COMPLEXITY John H. Holland Joshua Hagen THE COMPUTER Darrel Ince THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea COMPUTER SCIENCE Subrata Dasgupta THE BRICS Andrew F. Cooper CONFUCIANISM Daniel K. Gardner THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION THE CONQUISTADORS Martin Loughlin Matthew Restall and THE BRITISH EMPIRE Felipe Fernández-Armesto Ashley Jackson CONSCIENCE Paul Strohm BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore BUDDHA Michael Carrithers CONTEMPORARY ART BUDDHISM Damien Keown Julian Stallabrass BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown CONTEMPORARY FICTION BYZANTIUM Peter Sarris Robert Eaglestone CANCER Nicholas James CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY CAPITALISM James Fulcher Simon Critchley CATHOLICISM Gerald O’Collins COPERNICUS Owen Gingerich CAUSATION Stephen Mumford CORAL REEFS Charles Sheppard and Rani Lill Anjum CORPORATE SOCIAL THE CELL Terence Allen and RESPONSIBILITY Jeremy Moon Graham Cowling CORRUPTION Leslie Holmes THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe COSMOLOGY Peter Coles CHAOS Leonard Smith CRIME FICTION Richard Bradford CHEMISTRY Peter Atkins CRIMINAL JUSTICE Julian V. Roberts CHILD PSYCHOLOGY Usha Goswami CRITICAL THEORY CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Stephen Eric Bronner Kimberley Reynolds THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman CHINESE LITERATURE Sabina Knight CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper and CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham Sean Murphy CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson CRYSTALLOGRAPHY A. M. Glazer CHRISTIAN ETHICS D. Stephen Long THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead Richard Curt Kraus DADA AND SURREALISM ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Timothy Rice David Hopkins THE ETRUSCANS Christopher Smith DANTE Peter Hainsworth THE EUROPEAN UNION John Pinder and David Robey and Simon Usherwood DARWIN Jonathan Howard EVOLUTION Brian and THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Timothy Lim Deborah Charlesworth DECOLONIZATION Dane Kennedy EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick EXPLORATION Stewart A. Weaver DERRIDA Simon Glendinning THE EYE Michael Land DESCARTES Tom Sorell FAMILY LAW Jonathan Herring DESERTS Nick Middleton FASCISM Kevin Passmore DESIGN John Heskett FASHION Rebecca Arnold DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY FEMINISM Margaret Walters Lewis Wolpert FILM Michael Wood THE DEVIL Darren Oldridge FILM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak DIASPORA Kevin Kenny THE FIRST WORLD WAR DICTIONARIES Lynda Mugglestone Michael Howard DINOSAURS David Norman FOLK MUSIC Mark Slobin DIPLOMACY Joseph M. Siracusa FOOD John Krebs DOCUMENTARY FILM FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY Patricia Aufderheide David Canter DREAMING J. Allan Hobson FORENSIC SCIENCE Jim Fraser DRUGS Les Iversen FORESTS Jaboury Ghazoul DRUIDS Barry Cunliffe FOSSILS Keith Thomson EARLY MUSIC Thomas Forrest Kelly FOUCAULT Gary Gutting THE EARTH Martin Redfern THE FOUNDING FATHERS EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE Tim Lenton R. B. Bernstein ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta FRACTALS Kenneth Falconer EDUCATION Gary Thomas FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch FREE WILL Thomas Pink EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN FRENCH LITERATURE John D. Lyons Paul Langford THE FRENCH REVOLUTION THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball William Doyle EMOTION Dylan Evans FREUD Anthony Storr EMPIRE Stephen Howe FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven ENGELS Terrell Carver FUNGI Nicholas P. Money ENGINEERING David Blockley GALAXIES John Gribbin ENGLISH LITERATURE GALILEO Stillman Drake Jonathan Bate GAME THEORY Ken Binmore THE ENLIGHTENMENT GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh John Robertson GENES Jonathan Slack ENTREPRENEURSHIP GENIUS Andrew Robinson Paul Westhead and Mike Wright GEOGRAPHY John Matthews ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS and David Herbert Stephen Smith GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS GERMAN LITERATURE Nicholas Boyle Andrew Dobson GERMAN PHILOSOPHY Andrew Bowie EPICUREANISM Catherine Wilson GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Bill McGuire EPIDEMIOLOGY Rodolfo Saracci GLOBAL ECONOMIC HISTORY ETHICS Simon Blackburn Robert C. Allen GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger INNOVATION Mark Dodgson and GOD John Bowker David Gann GOETHE Ritchie Robertson INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary THE GOTHIC Nick Groom INTERNATIONAL LAW Vaughan Lowe GOVERNANCE Mark Bevir INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND Khalid Koser THE NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson Paul Wilkinson HAPPINESS Daniel M. Haybron INTERNATIONAL SECURITY THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Christopher S. Browning Cheryl A. Wall IRAN Ali M. Ansari THE HEBREW BIBLE AS LITERATURE ISLAM Malise Ruthven Tod Linafelt ISLAMIC HISTORY Adam Silverstein HEGEL Peter Singer ISOTOPES Rob Ellam HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood ITALIAN LITERATURE HERMENEUTICS Jens Zimmermann Peter Hainsworth and David Robey HERODOTUS Jennifer T. Roberts JESUS Richard Bauckham HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves HINDUISM Kim Knott JUDAISM Norman Solomon HISTORY John H. Arnold JUNG Anthony Stevens THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY KABBALAH Joseph Dan Michael Hoskin KAFKA Ritchie Robertson THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY KANT Roger Scruton William H. Brock KEYNES Robert Skidelsky THE HISTORY OF LIFE KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner Michael Benton KNOWLEDGE Jennifer Nagel THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS THE KORAN Michael Cook Jacqueline Stedall LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE THE History of Medicine Ian H. Thompson William Bynum LANDSCAPES AND THE HISTORY OF TIME GEOMORPHOLOGY Leofranc Holford-Strevens Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside LANGUAGES Stephen R. Anderson HOBBES Richard Tuck LATE ANTIQUITY Gillian Clark HOLLYWOOD Peter Decherney LAW Raymond Wacks HORMONES Martin Luck THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS HUMAN ANATOMY Peter Atkins Leslie Klenerman LEADERSHIP Keith Grint HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood LEARNING Mark Haselgrove HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham LIBERALISM Michael Freeden HUMANISM Stephen Law LIGHT Ian Walmsley HUME A. J. Ayer LINCOLN Allen C. Guelzo HUMOUR Noël Carroll LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews THE ICE AGE Jamie Woodward LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden LOCKE John Dunn INDIAN CINEMA Ashish Rajadhyaksha LOGIC Graham Priest INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton LOVE Ronald de Sousa INFECTIOUS DISEASE Marta L. Wayne MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner and Benjamin M. Bolker MADNESS Andrew Scull INFORMATION Luciano Floridi MAGIC Owen Davies MAGNA CARTA Nicholas Vincent THE MONGOLS Morris Rossabi MAGNETISM Stephen Blundell MOONS David A. Rothery MALTHUS Donald Winch MORMONISM MANAGEMENT John Hendry Richard Lyman Bushman MAO Delia Davin MOUNTAINS Martin F. Price MARINE BIOLOGY Philip V. Mladenov MUHAMMAD Jonathan A. C. Brown THE MARQUIS DE SADE John Phillips MULTICULTURALISM Ali Rattansi MARTIN LUTHER Scott H. Hendrix MUSIC Nicholas Cook MARTYRDOM Jolyon Mitchell MYTH Robert A. Segal MARX Peter Singer THE NAPOLEONIC WARS MATERIALS Christopher Hall Mike Rapport MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers NATIONALISM Steven Grosby THE MEANING OF LIFE Terry Eagleton NELSON MANDELA MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope Elleke Boehmer MEDICAL LAW Charles Foster NEOLIBERALISM Manfred Steger MEDIEVAL BRITAIN John Gillingham and Ravi Roy and Ralph A. Griffiths NETWORKS Guido Caldarelli and MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Michele Catanzaro Elaine Treharne THE NEW TESTAMENT MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY Luke Timothy Johnson John Marenbon THE NEW TESTAMENT AS MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster LITERATURE Kyle Keefer METAPHYSICS Stephen Mumford NEWTON Robert Iliffe THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner Alan Knight NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN MICHAEL FARADAY Christopher Harvie and Frank A. J. L. James H. C. G. Matthew MICROBIOLOGY Nicholas P. Money THE NORMAN CONQUEST MICROECONOMICS Avinash Dixit George Garnett MICROSCOPY Terence Allen NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS THE MIDDLE AGES Miri Rubin Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green MILITARY JUSTICE Eugene R. Fidell NORTHERN IRELAND MINERALS David Vaughan Marc Mulholland MODERN ART David Cottington NOTHING Frank Close MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter NUCLEAR PHYSICS Frank Close MODERN DRAMA NUCLEAR POWER Maxwell Irvine Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr NUCLEAR WEAPONS MODERN FRANCE Joseph M. Siracusa Vanessa R. Schwartz NUMBERS Peter M. Higgins MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta NUTRITION David A. Bender MODERN JAPAN OBJECTIVITY Stephen Gaukroger Christopher Goto-Jones THE OLD TESTAMENT MODERN LATIN AMERICAN Michael D. Coogan LITERATURE THE ORCHESTRA D. Kern Holoman Roberto González Echevarría ORGANIZATIONS Mary Jo Hatch MODERN WAR Richard English PAGANISM Owen Davies MODERNISM Christopher Butler THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI MOLECULAR BIOLOGY CONFLICT Martin Bunton Aysha Divan and Janice A. Royds PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close MOLECULES Philip Ball PAUL E. P. Sanders PEACE Oliver P. Richmond RELATIVITY Russell Stannard PENTECOSTALISM William K. Kay Religion in America Timothy Beal THE PERIODIC TABLE Eric R. Scerri THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig RENAISSANCE ART PHILOSOPHY IN THE ISLAMIC Geraldine A. Johnson WORLD Peter Adamson REVOLUTIONS Jack A. Goldstone PHILOSOPHY OF LAW RHETORIC Richard Toye Raymond Wacks RISK Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE RITUAL Barry Stephenson Samir Okasha RIVERS Nick Middleton PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards ROBOTICS Alan Winfield PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Peter Atkins ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway PILGRIMAGE Ian Reader THE ROMAN EMPIRE PLAGUE Paul Slack Christopher Kelly PLANETS David A. Rothery THE ROMAN REPUBLIC PLANTS Timothy Walker David M. Gwynn PLATE TECTONICS Peter Molnar ROMANTICISM Michael Ferber PLATO Julia Annas ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY David Miller RUSSELL A. C. Grayling POLITICS Kenneth Minogue RUSSIAN HISTORY Geoffrey Hosking POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION POSTSTRUCTURALISM S. A. Smith Catherine Belsey SAVANNA Peter A. Furley PREHISTORY Chris Gosden SCHIZOPHRENIA Chris Frith and PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY Eve Johnstone Catherine Osborne SCHOPENHAUER Christopher Janaway PRIVACY Raymond Wacks Science and Religion Thomas Dixon PROBABILITY John Haigh SCIENCE FICTION David Seed PROGRESSIVISM Walter Nugent THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION PROTESTANTISM Mark A. Noll Lawrence M. Principe PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns SCOTLAND Rab Houston PSYCHOANALYSIS Daniel Pick SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier PSYCHOLOGY Gillian Butler and SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES Freda McManus Bart van Es PSYCHOTHERAPY Tom Burns and SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt Eva Burns-Lundgren THE SILK ROAD James A. Millward PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SLANG Jonathon Green Stella Z. Theodoulou and Ravi K. Roy SLEEP Steven W. Lockley and PUBLIC HEALTH Virginia Berridge Russell G. Foster PURITANISM Francis J. Bremer SOCIAL AND CULTURAL THE QUAKERS Pink Dandelion ANTHROPOLOGY QUANTUM THEORY John Monaghan and Peter Just John Polkinghorne SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Richard J. Crisp RACISM Ali Rattansi SOCIAL WORK Sally Holland and RADIOACTIVITY Claudio Tuniz Jonathan Scourfield RASTAFARI Ennis B. Edmonds SOCIALISM Michael Newman THE REAGAN REVOLUTION Gil Troy SOCIOLINGUISTICS John Edwards REALITY Jan Westerhoff SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce THE REFORMATION Peter Marshall SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor SOUND Mike Goldsmith THE TROJAN WAR Eric H. Cline THE SOVIET UNION Stephen Lovell TRUST Katherine Hawley THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR THE TUDORS John Guy Helen Graham TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN SPANISH LITERATURE Jo Labanyi Kenneth O. Morgan SPINOZA Roger Scruton THE UNITED NATIONS SPIRITUALITY Philip Sheldrake Jussi M. Hanhimäki SPORT Mike Cronin THE U.S. CONGRESS Donald A. Ritchie STARS Andrew King THE U.S. SUPREME COURT STATISTICS David J. Hand Linda Greenhouse STEM CELLS Jonathan Slack UTOPIANISM Lyman Tower Sargent STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING THE VIKINGS Julian Richards David Blockley VIRUSES Dorothy H. Crawford STUART BRITAIN John Morrill WAR AND TECHNOLOGY SUPERCONDUCTIVITY Alex Roland Stephen Blundell WATER John Finney SYMMETRY Ian Stewart THE WELFARE STATE David Garland TAXATION Stephen Smith WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TEETH Peter S. Ungar Stanley Wells TERRORISM Charles Townshend WITCHCRAFT Malcolm Gaskill THEATRE Marvin Carlson WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling THEOLOGY David F. Ford WORK Stephen Fineman THOMAS AQUINAS Fergus Kerr WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman THOUGHT Tim Bayne THE WORLD TRADE TIBETAN BUDDHISM ORGANIZATION Amrita Narlikar Matthew T. Kapstein WORLD WAR II Gerhard L. Weinberg TOCQUEVILLE Harvey C. Mansfield WRITING AND SCRIPT TRAGEDY Adrian Poole Andrew Robinson Available soon: LEIBNIZ Maria Rosa Antognazza MODERN ITALY MEASUREMENT David Hand Anna Cento Bull TRANSLATION Matthew Reynolds AGEING Nancy A. Pachana For more information visit our website www.oup.com/vsi/ Alex Roland WAR AND TECHNOLOGY A Very Short Introduction 1
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