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050 4 $aDS738$b.A54 2016
082 04 $a355.00951$223
100 1 $aAndrade, Tonio,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe gunpowder age :$bChina, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history /$cTonio Andrade.
264 1 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2016]
300 $aix, 432 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 379-420) and index.
505 0 $aThe 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?
651 0 $aChina$xHistory, Military.
650 0 $aGunpowder$xHistory.
651 0 $aEurope$xHistory, Military.
852 00 $beal$hDS738$i.A54 2016