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The gunpowder age : China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history /
"The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 18...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?