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 | #732628 in Books |  Andrade Tonio |  2016-01-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.40 x1.70 x6.30l,.0 | File type: PDF | 448 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in global history or ...|By M. Lorenzo Warby|A very clearly written book, well grounded in the available scholarship. The author gives a very informed and balanced view of the interactions between, and development paths of, gunpowder warfare in Europe and East Asia, particularly China. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest i| |Winner of a 2017 Distinguished Book Award, Society of Military History

"[An] enlightening new history."--Alex Monro, Times Literary Supplement

"The Gunpowder Age is a boldly argued, prodigiously researched and

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? 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...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History   |  Tonio Andrade.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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