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Tonio Andrade: The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History. ix, 432 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press …

Cheng, 2017

Document ID
3585834432993107133
Author
Cheng Z
Publication year
Publication venue
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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The Gunpowder Age is a comparative military history of China and Europe, from c. 1000 to 1900. Concentrating on gunpowder warfare, it examines not only how China diverged from the West, but also how the West diverged from East Asia. The short answer could be …
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