Bibliograph

The gunpowder age, China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history, Tonio Andrade

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The gunpowder age, China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history, Tonio Andrade

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-420) and index

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The gunpowder age

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

908084037

Responsibility statement

Tonio Andrade

Sub title

China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history

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?

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