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The Asian military revolution : from gunpowder to the bomb /
Records show that the Chinese invented gunpowder in the 800s. By the 1200s they had unleashed the first weapons of war upon their unsuspecting neighbours. This extraordinarily ambitious book traces the history of that invention and its impact on the surrounding Asian world - Korea, Japan, South East...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | New approaches to Asian history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- China through the Yuan
- Japan and the wars of unification
- The Chinese military revolution and war in Korea
- Southeast Asia
- South Asia to 1750
- The military revolution in South Asia, 1750-1850
- The arrival and departure of the West.