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Title page, Contents, Contributors, Notes for Contributors |
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Introduction:
Why the Social History of Military Technology |
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Brenda J. Buchanan
Charcoal: 'The Largest Single Variable in the Performance of Black Powder' |
3 |

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Christophe Bonnet
Furnace Workers:
A Quasi-Corporation in Rural Eighteenth Century France |
30 |

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Yin Xiaodong
Western Cannons in China in the 16th-17th Centuries
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41 |

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Barton C. Hacker
Firearms, Horses, and Slave Soldiers:
The Military History of African Slavery
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62 |

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Michael Anton Budd
Cervantes, Stendhal and Tolstoy:
Three Romantic-Realist Soldiers Encountering Technology |
84 |

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Margaret Vining
War and Peace 101:
The University of Chicago, Sophonisba Breckenridge and Applied Sociology in the Great War |
106 |

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Jeffery C. Larrabee
A Tale of Two Trucks: American Casualty Evacuation in World War I |
123 |

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Petter Wulff
Self-Defence on Foreign Ground: Sweden as a Bombing Nation |
151 |

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Dorotea Gucciardo
'Another of those Mad, Wild Schemes': Canadian Inventions to Win the Second World War |
169 |

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Colin A. Hempstead
Infrared Missiles, Some Young Scientists and a New Technology |
179 |

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