The Gunpowder Age : China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History /

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"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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Andrade, Tonio (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Krut > historia.
Militärhistoria.
Schiesspulver
Kanone
Kriegführung
Ordnance.
Gunpowder.
HISTORY > General.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Ordnance > History.
Gunpowder > History.
China
Europa
Europe.
China.
Europe > Histoire militaire.
Chine > Histoire militaire.
Europe > History, Military.
China > History, Military.
Military history.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo

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