This book asks why Europeans perfected firearms when the Chinese had invented them by looking at how firearms were used throughout the world.
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This book asks why Europeans perfected firearms when the Chinese had invented them by looking at how firearms were used throughout the world.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 310 p. Contains: Unspecified. Audience: General/trade. Hardcover Cloth 290 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Stated first edition 2003. Elegant tan boards with and red embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear with undamaged corners. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Kenneth Chase traces the history of firearms from their invention in China in the 1100s to the 1700s, when European firearms had become clearly superior. In Firearms, Chase asks why it was the Europeans who perfected firearms, not the Chinese, and then proceeds to answer it through no-nonsense discussions of the geographic, cultural, technological, economic and security threat conditions experienced by the main civilizations during the developmental period of firearms. 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 incompatible with firearms. 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 lasting consequences.
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