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The gunpowder age : China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history
- Title
- The gunpowder age : China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history / Tonio Andrade.
- Author
- Andrade, Tonio
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
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- Description
- ix, 432 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-420) and index.
- 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?
- Call Number
- JFE 16-1436
- ISBN
- 9780691135977
- 0691135975
- OCLC
- 908084037
- Author
- Andrade, Tonio, author.
- Title
- The gunpowder age : China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history / Tonio Andrade.
- Publisher
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-420) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-1436