Technology, Violence, and War: Essays in Honor of Dr. John F. Guilmartin, Jr.

422 Pages·2019·5.322 MB·English

by  Robert S. Ehlers, Jr., Sarah K. Douglas, Daniel P.M. Curzon

Technology, Violence, and War
History of Warfare
Editors
Kelly DeVries (Loyola University Maryland)
John France (University of Wales, Swansea)
Paul Johstono (The Citadel, South Carolina)
Michael S. Neiberg (United States Army War College, Pennsylvania)
Frederick Schneid (High Point University, North Carolina)
volume 125
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Technology, Violence, and War
Essays in Honor of Dr. John F. Guilmartin, Jr.
Edited by
Robert S. Ehlers, Jr.
Sarah K. Douglas
Daniel P.M. Curzon
leiden | boston
Cover illustration: Fol. 102r, Kriegstechnik (Bilderhandschrift), Zentralbibliothek, Zürich, Ms. Rh hist. 33b.
Papier, 168 ff,. 30 × 21 cm, Oberrhein um 1420–1440. With kind permission of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich.
Photo Dr Guilmartin: courtesy of Lore Guilmartin.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Guilmartin, John F., Jr. (John Francis), 1940-2016, honouree. |
Ehlers, Robert S., editor. | Douglas, Sarah K., editor. | Curzon, Daniel
P. M., editor.
Title: Technology, violence, and war : essays in honor of Dr. John F.
Guilmartin, Jr. / Edited by Robert S. Ehlers, Jr., Sarah K. Douglas,
Daniel P.M. Curzon.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] | Series: History of warfare,
ISSN 1385-7827 ; Volume 125 | Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018055829 (print) | LCCN 2018056711 (ebook) | ISBN
9789004393301 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004383418 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Military research. | Military art and science--Technological
innovations.
Classification: LCC U390 (ebook) | LCC U390 .T 2019 (print) | DDC
355/.07--dc23
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To Dr. John F. (“Joe”) Guilmartin, Jr. from his students.
He modeled strength in adversity, humility in achievement,
and wisdom in action. And to Lore Guilmartin,
the gracious and formidable woman behind Joe’s successes and ours.
⸪

Contents
Acknowledgements  xiii
List of Illustrations, Tables and Maps  xv
Notes on Contributors  xvii
Introduction  1
1 Technology and Strategy: What Are the Limits?  9
John F. Guilmartin, Jr.
Part 1
The Pre-Industrial World, 1300–1800
2 Gunpowder Artillery in Europe, 1326–1500: Innovation and
Impact  39
Clifford J. Rogers
3 To the Seas: The Genesis of Ship Rigging in the Medieval and Early
Modern Worlds  72
Sarah K. Douglas
4 The Lost World: Change and Continuity in Mughal Military
Technology  83
Andrew de la Garza
Part 2
19th Century Warfare
5 If You Can Be Seen, You Can Be Killed: The Technological Increase in
Killing Zone during the American Civil War  103
Edward B. McCaul, Jr.
6 Without Experience or Precedent: Transformational Technology and the
Light Draft Monitors  112
William Roberts
x Contents
7 The Uganda Railway and the Fabrication of Kenya  133
Robert H. Clemm
Part 3
The World Wars
8 German Technology and the Origins of World War ii in East
Asia  157
Robyn Rodriguez
9 Freeman’s Folly: The Debate over the Development of the
“Unarmed Bomber” and the Genesis of the de Havilland Mosquito,
1935–1940  176
Sebastian Cox
10 The Impact of Institutional Context: Anglo-American Naval Fire
Control  204
Corbin Williamson
11 Strategy, Technology, and Timing: Aircraft, the Mediterranean Air War,
and the Turning of the Tide in the European Theater  218
Robert S. Ehlers, Jr.
Part 4
War Since 1945
12 The War Is Lost: Technological Surprise and the Collapse of Portugal’s
Colonial Airpower Strategy, Guinea 1963–1974  259
Matthew M. Hurley
13 The Vicissitudes of Violence: Fear, Physiology, and Behavior under
Fire  283
Edward Coss
14 Des Fusils Aux Idée: Technological Skepticism and Masculinity in the
French Army, 1954–1962  304
William Waddell