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A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact onChina's role in global history The Chinese inventedgunpowder and began exploring its military uses ...
With The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, Tonio Andrade champions a comparative, global approach, appropriate for such a large question. His answer is that China did rise, enjoying not only parity but, provocatively, superiority through much of its history.
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 · A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global history. The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four...
29 sie 2017 · In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answer, opening a fresh perspective on a key question of world history: why did the countries of western Europe surge to global importance starting in the 1500s while China slipped behind?
In Part I Andrade shows that the Chinese not only invented gunpowder, as is widely known, but also successfully used it for warfare, which is often ignored. In Part II he shows how Europe got the gun and why and how Western Europe and not China developed gunpowder artillery.
1 cze 2017 · The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. By Richard
