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The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History

The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Andrade, Tonio

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Title
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
Author
Andrade, Tonio
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780691135977
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Very Good
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". ix, 432pp. Mild creasing, rubbing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Gentle bump to head of spine of jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bump to head of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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? Historians have long argued that gunpowder weapons helped Europeans establish global hegemony. Yet the inhabitants of what is today China not only invented guns and bombs but also, as Andrade shows, continued to innovate in gunpowder technology through the early 1700s much longer than previously thought. Why, then, did China become so vulnerable? Andrade argues that one significant reason is that it was out of practice fighting wars, having enjoyed nearly a century of relative peace, since 1760. Indeed, he demonstrates that China like Europe was a powerful military innovator, particularly during times of great warfare, such as the violent century starting after the Opium War, when the Chinese once again quickly modernized their forces. Today, China is simply returning to its old position as one of the world's great military powers. By showing that China’s military dynamism was deeper, longer lasting, and more quickly recovered than previously understood, The Gunpowder Age challenges long-standing explanations of the so-called Great Divergence between the West and Asia.(Publisher).
Early Burials From the Agora Cemeteries

Early Burials From the Agora Cemeteries

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Early Burials From the Agora Cemeteries
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Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1973. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. [32]pp. Very good in publisher's stapled wraps.

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