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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andrade, Tonio (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
China > History, Military.
Gunpowder > History.
Europe > History, Military.
Table of Contents:
  • 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?