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The Gunpowder Age
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China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
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Artikel-Nr:
9780691178141
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
29.08.2017
Seiten:
448
Autor:
Tonio Andrade
Gewicht:
742 g
Format:
236x157x29 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
Tonio Andrade is professor of history at Emory University and the author of Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West (Princeton) and How Taiwan Became Chinese.
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?