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The gunpowder age: China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history

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Andrade, Tonio

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Princeton University Press

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[2016]

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English

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The military pattern of the Chinese past

Part I. Chinese beginnings

The crucible : the Song Warring States period

Early gunpowder warfare

The Mongol wars and the evolution of the gun

Great martiality : the gunpowder emperor

Part II. Europe gets the gun

The Medieval gun

Big guns : why western Europe and not China developed gunpowder artillery

The development of the classic gun in Europe

The gunpowder age in Europe

Cannibals with cannons : the Sino-Portuguese clashes of 1521-1522

Part III. An age of parity

The Frankish cannon

Drill, discipline, and the rise of the West

The musket in East Asia

The seventeenth century : an age of parity?

A European naval advantage

The Renaissance fortress : an agent of European expansion?

Part IV. The great military divergence

The Opium War and the great divergence

A modernizing moment : Opium War reforms

China's modernization and the end of the gunpowder age

A new Warring States period?

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The military pattern of the Chinese past

Part I. Chinese beginnings

The crucible : the Song Warring States period

Early gunpowder warfare

The Mongol wars and the evolution of the gun

Great martiality : the gunpowder emperor

Part II. Europe gets the gun

The Medieval gun

Big guns : why western Europe and not China developed gunpowder artillery

The development of the classic gun in Europe

The gunpowder age in Europe

Cannibals with cannons : the Sino-Portuguese clashes of 1521-1522

Part III. An age of parity

The Frankish cannon

Drill, discipline, and the rise of the West

The musket in East Asia

The seventeenth century : an age of parity?

A European naval advantage

The Renaissance fortress : an agent of European expansion?

Part IV. The great military divergence

The Opium War and the great divergence

A modernizing moment : Opium War reforms

China's modernization and the end of the gunpowder age

A new Warring States period?

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Asia -- History, Military
China
China -- History, Military
Electronic books
Europa
Europe
Europe -- History, Military
Gunpowder
Gunpowder -- History
historia
History
History, Military
Kanone
Kina
Kriegführung
Krut
Krut -- historia
Military art and science
Military art and science -- History
Military history
Militärhistoria
Ordnance
Ordnance -- History
Schießpulver

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9780691178141
9780691135977
9781400874446

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