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Tonio Andrade
400 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691135977
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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 ea...
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![The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Tonio Andrade](https://assets.thestorygraph.com/assets/placeholder-cover-a3ae92250eb3301e32dc3eabf8d50576c2f047dda89f6ee7cfa9a859cb1fd746.jpg)
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Tonio Andrade
400 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691135977
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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 ea...