TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrade,Tonio
TI  - The gunpowder age: China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history 
SN  - 9780691135977
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - history
KW  - China
KW  - military history
KW  - Europe
KW  - gunpowder
N1  - SIP2203; Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-420) and index; The military pattern of the Chinese past -- Part I. Chinese beginnings -- The crucible : the Song Warring States period -- Early gunpowder warfare -- The Mongol wars and the evolution of the gun -- Great martiality : the gunpowder emperor -- Part II. Europe gets the gun -- The Medieval gun -- Big guns : why western Europe and not China developed gunpowder artillery -- The development of the classic gun in Europe -- The gunpowder age in Europe -- Cannibals with cannons : the Sino-Portuguese clashes of 1521-1522 -- Part III. An age of parity -- The Frankish cannon -- Drill, discipline, and the rise of the West -- The musket in East Asia -- The seventeenth century : an age of parity? -- A European naval advantage -- The Renaissance fortress : an agent of European expansion? -- Part IV. The great military divergence -- The Opium War and the great divergence -- A modernizing moment : Opium War reforms -- China's modernization and the end of the gunpowder age -- A new Warring States period?
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