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1 cze 2017 · The gunpowder age: China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history By Andrade Tonio . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. x+432. 25 b/w illustrations, 10...
A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact onChina's role in global history The Chinese inventedgunpowder and began exploring its military uses ...
The gunpowder age: China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history By Tonio Andrade. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. x+432. 25 b/w illustrations, 10 maps. Hardback £32.95, ISBN: 978-0-691-13597-7; paperback £19.95, ISBN: 978-0-691-17814-1.
The major Asian agrarian states of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals (the so-called Gunpowder Empires) and the Ming and Qing dynasties in China implemented gunpowder weapons differently. The Ottomans were the most aggressive in this regard, the Mughals preferred a hybrid force, and the Safavids long favored cavalry.
12 sty 2016 · 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 1839–42.
This book examines the Great Divergence between China and the West by concentrating on warfare. It suggests that there is a military pattern to the Chinese past that can help us make sense of China’s peri-ods of strength, decline, and resurgence. But it doesn’t focus on China alone.
29 sie 2017 · 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 1839–42. What happened?
