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Tonio Andrade

Gunpowder Age


China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
2017. 448 S. 30 b&w ill. 234 mm
Verlag/Jahr: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2017
ISBN: 0-691-17814-3 (0691178143)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-691-17814-1 (9780691178141)

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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?
"The Gunpowder Ageis a boldly argued, prodigiously researched and gracefully written work. This book has much to offer general readers, especially those with a passion for military history, as well as specialists."--Wall Street Journal
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.