FireArms
History
The Pauly and the Chase books on
firearms (PDFs) are good and the Bown PDF is good on gun powder.
All sources listed in this
bibliography are available here [eLibrary]
unless otherwise indicated.
Bastable, Marshall J. "From
Breechloaders to Monster Guns: Sir William Armstrong and the Invention of
Modern Artillery, 1854-1880." Technology and Culture 33, no. 2 (1992):
213-247.
Beeler, John. "The State of
the Art -- Recent Scholarship in Late Medieval and Early Modern Military
History." Military
Affairs 47, no. 4 (1983): 193-195.
Borden, Morton. "Friedrich
Engels on Rifled Cannon." Military Affairs 21, no. 4 (1957): 193-198.
Bown, Stephen R. A Most Damnable
Invention : Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World. 1st ed.
New York: T. Dunne Books, 2005.
You should own this for class.
Cassidy, Ben. "Machiavelli
and the Ideology of the Offensive: Gunpowder Weapons In "The Art of
War"." The
Journal of Military History 67, no. 2 (2003): 381-404.
Historians
have often claimed that Niccolo Machiavelli shunned the use of gunpowder
weapons, both field artillery and hand-held weapons, because of their absence
in the ancient world which the Italian loved so dearly. Machiavelli, however,
did not reject the use of gunpowder weapons, but gave them a secondary role in
his military scheme. The reason for this was that, in Machiavelli's time,
reliance on gunpowder weapons necessitated defensive tactics in battle, while
Machiavelli believed that an army should take the offensive in war, and he
prescribed the role of guns in his army accordingly.
Chase, Kenneth Warren. Firearms: A
Global History to 1700. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Chase_FArms-120.pdf
Dana, Charles E. "Notes on
Cannon-Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries." Proceedings of the American Philosophical
Society 50, no. 199 (1911): 147-167.
de la Croix, Horst. "The
Literature on Fortification in Renaissance Italy." Technology and Culture 4, no. 1 (1963):
30-50.
Foley, Vernard, Steven Rowley,
David F. Cassidy, and F. Charles Logan. "Leonardo, the Wheel Lock, and the
Milling Process." Technology and Culture 24, no. 3 (1983): 399-427.
Goodrich, L. Carrington, and
Feng Chia-sheng. "The Early Development of Firearms in China." Isis 36, no.
2 (1946): 114-123.
Lynn, John. "[Reviewed Work:
Firearms and Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in
Sixteenth-Century Siena., by Pepper, Simon;]." Military Affairs 51, no. 2 (1987): 103.
Murray, William M.
"[Reviewed Work: Ancient Siege Warfare, by Kern, Paul Bently]." The Journal of
Military History 64, no. 2 (2000): 515-516.
Pauly, Roger. Firearms : The Life Story of a Technology. Greenwood Technographies. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 2004. Pauly-Firearms-excerpt.pdf
Steele, Brett D. "Muskets
and Pendulums: Benjamin Robins, Leonhard Euler, and the Ballistics
Revolution." Technology and Culture 35, no. 2 (1994): 348-382.
Webb, Henry J. "The Science of Gunnery in Elizabethan
England." Isis
45, no. 1 (1954): 10-21.
Wright, John W. "The Rifle in the American
Revolution." The American Historical Review 29, no. 2 (1924): 293-299.