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 Andrad


Format Häftad Omfång 448 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Princeton University Press Utgivningsdatum 2017-08-29 ISBN 9780691178141