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100	1		_aAndrade, Tonio
245	1	4	_aThe gunpowder age : _bChina, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history / _cTonio Andrade
260			_aPrinceton, NJ : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2016
300			_aix, 432 pages : _billustrations, _c25 cm
500			_aSIP2203
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 379-420) and index.
505	8		_aThe 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?
650		0	_ahistory
651		0	_aChina _xmilitary history
651		0	_aEurope _xmilitary history
653			_agunpowder
942			_cMONO