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The Gunpowder Age : China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Tonio Andrade - gebrauchtes Buch
ISBN: 9780691135977
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 falle… Mehr…
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The Gunpowder Age ? China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History - gebunden oder broschiert2016, ISBN: 9780691135977
Princeton University Press, Hardcover, 448 Seiten, Publiziert: 2016-01-26T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 21 halftones. 4 line illus. 10 maps. 0.88 kg, Verkaufsrang: 22273… Mehr…
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Princeton University Press, Hardcover, 448 Seiten, Publiziert: 2016-01-26T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 21 halftones. 4 line illus. 10 maps. 0.88 kg, Verkaufsrang: 22273… Mehr…
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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?
Historians have long argued that gunpowder weapons helped Europeans establish global hegemony. Yet the inhabitants of what is today China not only invented guns and bombs but also, as Andrade shows, continued to innovate in gunpowder technology through the early 1700s--much longer than previously thought. Why, then, did China become so vulnerable? Andrade argues that one significant reason is that it was out of practice fighting wars, having enjoyed nearly a century of relative peace, since 1760. Indeed, he demonstrates that China--like Europe--was a powerful military innovator, particularly during times of great warfare, such as the violent century starting after the Opium War, when the Chinese once again quickly modernized their forces. Today, China is simply returning to its old position as one of the world's great military powers.
By showing that China's military dynamism was deeper, longer lasting, and more quickly recovered than previously understood, The Gunpowder Age challenges long-standing explanations of the so-called Great Divergence between the West and Asia.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Herausgeber: Princeton University Press
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Autor des Buches: andrä, tonio andrade
Titel des Buches: innovation, world history, the world and the west, rise the west, history china, the gunpowder age china military
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