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Gunpowder Age : China Military Innovation And The Rise Of The West In World History
Hardback Edition: 1
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 countries of western Europe surge to global importance starting in the 1500s while China slipped behind?
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Publication date : 2016
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, History, Politics, General & World History, Warfare & Defence