The Social History of the Machine Gun PDF book is popular History book written by John Ellis. The book was released by JHU Press on 1986-08 with total hardcover pages 202. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read The Social History of the Machine Gun by John Ellis in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
The machine gun—often called the killing machine—revolutionized modern ground combat, brought an end to the traditional infantry and cavalry charge, and cha
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The world's first self-powered machine gun, the Maxim gun became a potent symbol of Victorian colonialism in the closing years of the 19th century. It was the b
This volume collects Gerard DeGr's writings, spanning four decades of activity. From his thesis on the theory of semiotics in Sorokin and Spengler to his later
