John F Guilmartin
Biographic Data
| ID | 619182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John F Guilmartin |
| GIVEN NAMES | John F |
| FAMILY NAME | Guilmartin |
| SIGNATURE | GUILMARTIN J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ships and Guns: The sea ordnance in Venice and Europe between the 15th and 17th centuries - Edited by Carlo Beltrame and Renato Gianni Ridella
The military revolution in warfare at sea during the early modern era: Technological origins, operational outcomes and strategic consequences
Origin and Prevention of Major Wars
Gunpowder, explosives and the state: A technological history - Edited by Brenda J. Buchanan
Brenda J. Buchanan , ed ., Gunpowder, explosives and the state: a technological history ( Aldershot : Ashgate , 2006 . Pp . xxiii + 425. 80 illus. 8 tabs . ISBN 0754652599 Hbk. £55/$99.95 ) Gunpowder and explosives have played a major role in world history, yet strangely their development, behaviour, use, and production have been neglected by historians. Based on 20 papers presented at biannual symposia of the International Commission of the Hist…
Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History
Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854-1891
The Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflicts, 1560-1800
Spanish Naval Power, 1589-1665: Reconstruction and Defeat
Gunpowder: The History of an International Technology
A Very Short War: The "Mayaguez" and the Battle of Koh Tang
Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam
A Very Short War: The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang
Journal Article A Very Short War: The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang. By John F. Guilmartin Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. xxvi, 238 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-89096-665-6.) Get access Kenton Clymer Kenton Clymer University of Texas, El Paso, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1100–1101, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
A Very Short War: The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang
The Armada of Flanders: Spanish Maritime Policy and European War, 1568-1668
The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe
World Trade since 1431: Geography, Technology, and Capitalism
World, Trade since 1431: Geography, Technology, and Capitalism by Peter J. Hugill
170 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE technocracy movement in the 1920s (as Bailes has argued), and, if so, what was its program and agenda? In their political compliance and willingness to serve state power, did not Palchinsky and his generation set the stage for the generations to follow? And why do we hear only of failures? If, as Thomas Parke Hughes has argued, the Manhattan Project was a result of the American system of production, was not…
High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing, 1950-1990
High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing, 1950-1990 by Robert C. Post
1024 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Friedel is really looking at is the way social forces can collide and collude to create a space for a device that soon ceases to seem novel. Where he is best is in tracking the way the zipper came to inhabit a mental and spiritual role as well as a commercial one. He quotes Erica Jong and Lyndon Johnson, traces the social overtones of the zipper in Aldous Huxley and the sexual ones in Tom Robbins—“little a…
America in Vietnam: A Working-Class War
Beginning with the author's reflections on viewing the 58,152 names incised in the black granite of the Washington, D.C., Vietnam Memorial, WorkingClass War by Christian G. Appy seeks the answers to questions for which the names on the wall stand as tragic symbols. Who fought in Vietnam? How were chosen? What were their lives like before entered service? How were trained? What were their expectations as shipped out for the combat zone? How were t…
The Art of Gunfounding: The Casting of Bronze Cannon in the Late 18th Century ed. by Carel de Beer
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 693 The Art of Gunfounding: The Casting of Bronze Cannon in the Late 18th Century. Edited by Carel de Beer. Rotherfield, East Sussex: Jean Boudriot Publications, 1991. Pp. viii + 232; illustrations, appen dixes, bibliography, index. £50.00. There can be no doubt concerning the historical importance of bronze cannon. The great transoceanic empires of the early modern period were carved out in large measure on t…
Moltke, Schlieffen, and Prussian War Planning
The Art of Gunfounding: The Casting of Bronze Cannon in the Late 18th Century
Landing Zones: Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam
The Seventy-Four Gun Ship: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Naval Architecture
Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century
Gunpowder: The History of an International Technology
Ideology and Conflict: The Wars of the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1606
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
The cannon of the Batavia and the Sacramento: Early modern cannon founding reconsidered
The military revolution in warfare at sea during the early modern era: Technological origins, operational outcomes and strategic consequences
Early modern naval ordnance and European penetration of the Caribbean: The operational dimension
International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyVolume 17, Issue 1 p. 35-53 Early modern naval ordnance and European penetration of the Caribbean: the operational dimension John F. Guilmartin Jr, John F. Guilmartin Jr United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island 02841-5010, USASearch for more papers by this author John F. Guilmartin Jr, John F. Guilmartin Jr United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island 02841-5010, USASearch for m…
The Guns of the Santissimo Sacramento
Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century
The cannon of the Batavia and the Sacramento: Early modern cannon founding reconsidered
Social Change and Military Service: The Integration of Women Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn F. GuilmartinJohn F. Guilmartin, Jr., director, Space Shuttle History Project, and adjunct professor of history, Rice University, wrote this review while he served as editor, Air University Review
The Guns of the Santissimo Sacramento
Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
CSS Alabama: Builder, Captain, and Plans
Early modern naval ordnance and European penetration of the Caribbean: The operational dimension
International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyVolume 17, Issue 1 p. 35-53 Early modern naval ordnance and European penetration of the Caribbean: the operational dimension John F. Guilmartin Jr, John F. Guilmartin Jr United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island 02841-5010, USASearch for more papers by this author John F. Guilmartin Jr, John F. Guilmartin Jr United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island 02841-5010, USASearch for m…
Reply by John F. Guilmartin, Jr
Europe
Ideology and Conflict: The Wars of the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1606
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars
Since the development of the modern state system in Europe four centuries ago, there have been ten general wars involving a majority of the major powers and a high level of casualties. Another major war is difficult to conceive of, since it would presumably be the last such conflict, and yet it is not an impossibility. In this volume a distinguished group of political scientists and historians examine the origins of major wars and discuss the pro…
The Porticello Shipwreck: A Mediterranean Merchant Vessel of 415–385 B.C. by Cynthia J. Eiseman, Brunilde S. Ridgway
668 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE record of scientific investigations dating from the first chance obser vations in the 1850s that had led to the understanding of the origins of these biblical dyes. Herzog was not satisfied with relying on ancient sources alone and turned for advice to British, French, and German experts in “tinctorial chemistry” who had made their names in the held of synthetic dyes. Other sections of the book deal with t…
The Porticello Shipwreck: A Mediterranean Merchant Vessel of 415-385 B.C
The Porticello Shipwreck provides unique information on seafaring technologies and trade practices at the turn of the fifth century B.C.This volume is the final report of the excavation, including detailed analyses of the ship and its contents and a thorough catalog of artifacts associated with the shipwreck. The Porticello wreck documents for the Classical period aspects of anchor, sail, and hull construction. The cargo provides the earliest evi…
The Art of War in the Western World
A Shuttle Chronology 1964-1973: Abstract Concepts to Letter Contracts
Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649-1571
The Seventy-Four Gun Ship: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Naval Architecture
The Seventy-Four Gun Ship: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Naval Architecture by Jean Boudriot
440 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE would merit the respect of any nineteenth- or twentieth-century industrial mogul” (p. 172). Noble David Cook Dr. Cook, author of Demographic Collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981) and People of the Colca Valley: A Population Study (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1982), is professor of history at the University of Bridgeport. He and his wife, Alexandra Parma Cook, have compl…
Landing Zones: Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam
The Art of Gunfounding: The Casting of Bronze Cannon in the Late 18th Century ed. by Carel de Beer
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 693 The Art of Gunfounding: The Casting of Bronze Cannon in the Late 18th Century. Edited by Carel de Beer. Rotherfield, East Sussex: Jean Boudriot Publications, 1991. Pp. viii + 232; illustrations, appen dixes, bibliography, index. £50.00. There can be no doubt concerning the historical importance of bronze cannon. The great transoceanic empires of the early modern period were carved out in large measure on t…
Moltke, Schlieffen, and Prussian War Planning
The Art of Gunfounding: The Casting of Bronze Cannon in the Late 18th Century
America in Vietnam: A Working-Class War
Beginning with the author's reflections on viewing the 58,152 names incised in the black granite of the Washington, D.C., Vietnam Memorial, WorkingClass War by Christian G. Appy seeks the answers to questions for which the names on the wall stand as tragic symbols. Who fought in Vietnam? How were chosen? What were their lives like before entered service? How were trained? What were their expectations as shipped out for the combat zone? How were t…
The Armada of Flanders: Spanish Maritime Policy and European War, 1568-1668
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