[PDF.32lc] Firearms: A Global History to 1700

Firearms: A Global History to 1700

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 | #471136 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2008-02-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.71 x5.98l,.96 | File type: PDF | 310 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Great read, but not for fun.|By Joshua Germany|Great read, but not for fun. In reading this book I learned a lot about the history of firearms and development of a new tyoe of warfare. I would have given it 5 stars but for the simple fact it wasn't the easiest read. Don't get me wrong I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it wasn't a difficult read, but as with any non-fiction it isn|From Publishers Weekly|Although firearms were invented in China and avidly taken up by the Ottoman Empire and other states, by 1700, European guns were the best in the world. This salient aspect of Western military superiority-perhaps the most important developm

Kenneth Chase traces the history of firearms from their invention in China in the 1100s to the 1700s, when European firearms had become clearly superior. In Firearms, Chase asks why it was the Europeans who perfected firearms, not the Chinese, and answers this question by looking at how firearms were used throughout the world. Early firearms were restricted to infantry and siege warfare, limiting their use outside of Europe and Japan. Steppe and desert nomads imposed ...

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