Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 0691135975 ISBN 13: 9780691135977
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Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2017
ISBN 10: 0691178143 ISBN 13: 9780691178141
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Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0691178143 ISBN 13: 9780691178141
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.