Firearms A Global History To 1700

Name: Firearms A Global History To 1700
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ISBN: 9780521722407

ISBN-10: 0521722403

ISBN-13: 9780521722407

Edition: 2008

Authors: Kenneth Chase

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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 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 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…

Book details

List price: $33.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188

Kenneth W. Chase is an attorney at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton. He received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and his J.D. from Stanford Law School.



List of Illustrations


Preface



Introduction


The Oikoumene


The Steppe


The Desert


Logistics


Cavalry


Firearms



China to 1500


The Invention of Firearms


The Rise of the Ming


The Ming Military


The Hongwu Campaigns


The Yongle Campaigns


Vietnam


The South Seas


Tumu



Europe


The Introduction of Firearms


Sieges and Battles


Geography


Guns and Horses


Guns and Ships


Guns and Bows


Eastern Europe


The Americas



Western Islamdom


Turkey


The Ottoman Military


The Balkans


The Mediterranean


Ottoman Success


Egypt


The Mamluk Military


Border Wars


Marj Dabiq


Mamluk Failure


The Maghrib


Sub-Saharan Africa



Eastern Islamdom


Iran


The Safavid Military


Azarbayjan


Khurasan


Safavid Success or Failure?


India


The Afghans


The Mughals


The Portuguese


Southeast Asia



China from 1500


Foreign Firearms


New Chinese Firearms


Institutional Change


Japanese Pirates


The Great Wall


Wagons


The Fall of the Ming


The Conquest of the Steppe



Korea and Japan


Korea


Japan


Tanegashima


Nobunaga


Unification


The First Invasion of Korea


The Korean Response


The Second Invasion of Korea


The Tokugawa



Conclusion


Firearms after 1700


The World after 1700


Wagons and Pikes


Firearms and Nomads


Notes


Bibliography


Index