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The Social History of the Machine Gun - Ellis, John, and Ezell, Edward C (Foreword by)
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On its original publication in 1975 this book was instantly recognised as a classic, an unique and wholly original work that showed how social and economic forces interacted with technological developments to, first, produce, then largely ignore, and finally to deploy with murderous effect, a new and devastating weapon. It was no accident that the pioneering machine-gun makers - Gatling, Maxim, Lewis and Browning - were American: the manufacture of the new weapons relied upon a use of machine tools that was alien to the ...

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The Social History of the Machine Gun 1986, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

ISBN-13: 9780801833588

Trade paperback

The Social History of the Machine Gun 1981, Arno Press

ISBN-13: 9780405142093

Unknown binding

The Social History of the Machine Gun 1975, Pantheon Books

ISBN-13: 9780394496634

American edition

Unknown binding

The social history of the machine gun 1975, Croom Helm, London

ISBN-13: 9780856642661

Hardcover