The gunpowder age [electronic resource] : China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history / Tonio Andrade.
Andrade, Tonio, author.
2016
DS738 .A54 2016eb
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Title The gunpowder age [electronic resource] : China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history / Tonio Andrade.
Author Andrade, Tonio, author.
ISBN 9781400874446 (electronic book)
9780691135977
Published Princeton, [New Jersey] : Princeton University Press, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 432 pages) : illustrations
Call Number DS738 .A54 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 355.0095
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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