Firearms : A Global History to 1700

Name: Firearms
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521722407
Price: 5450 KES
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ISBN: 9780521722407

by Kenneth Chase

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0521722403

ISBN-13 9780521722407

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 11th, 2008

Print length 310 Pages

Weight 440 grams

Dimensions 22.80 x 15.20 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: General & world history History: specific events & topics Weapons & equipment Weapons and equipment General and world history History: specific events and topics Small firearms, guns and other equipment Small firearms, guns & other equipment

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This book is a history of firearms across the world from the 1100s up to the 1700s, from the time of their invention in China to the time when European firearms had become clearly superior. It asks why Europeans perfected firearms when the Chinese had invented them by looking at how firearms were used throughout the world.

This book is a history of firearms across the world from the 1100s up to the 1700s, from their invention in China to the time when European firearms had become clearly superior. It asks why it was the Europeans who perfected firearms when it was the Chinese who had invented them, and answers this question by looking at how firearms were used throughout the world. Early firearms were restricted to infantry and siege warfare, limiting their use outside of Europe and Japan. Steppe and desert nomads imposed a different style of warfare on the Middle East, India, and China – a style with which firearms were incompatible. By the time that better firearms allowed these regions to turn the tables on the nomads, Japan's self-imposed isolation left Europe with no rival in firearms design, production, or use, with consequences that are still with us today.

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