... how they fought their wars and which side won, was largely dependenton the state of their technology and that of their enemy. Their motivation wasmore often than not economic, and economic history ... history and the history of technology can surely be considered as twin hand-maidens, the one almosttotally dependent on the other. So far as social history is concerned, the lot of the common man, ... is strange that, in the study and teaching of history, so little attention is paidto the history of technology. Political and constitutional history, economic history, naval and military history, ...