In limited degree, of course, industry and warfare have been connected from the earliest times. Weapons are what make human muscles formidable; and from the dawn of civilization it took specialized craftsmen to make weapons out of metal In the course of time the amount of metal used by warriors tended to increase; and the size of armies may also have grown greater—though with such ups and downs that no very definite growth pattern here emerges before the wars of the French Revolution.

Collection: Texts

Project: 6. Under a cloak of terror: violence and armed conflict in Europe.

Chronology: XIX

Scope: Secondary Education, Higher Education

Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20096953

Resource type: Article

Format: Texts

Language: English

Date: 1982

Owner: Porto group (Modernalia)

Identifier: ·

Abstract: Industrialization of War

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