Asian Military Revolution - From Gunpowder to the Bomb

Informationen zum Autor Peter Lorge is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. Klappentext This book explores the impact of the Chinese invention of gunpowder on the surrounding Asian region. Zusammenfassung This extraordinarily ambitious book traces the history of the invention of gunpowder by the Chinese in the 800s! and its impact on the surrounding Asian world from the ninth through the twentieth century. It is packed with information about military strategy! interregional warfare and the development of armaments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. China through the Yuan; 2. Japan and the wars of unification; 3. The Chinese military revolution and war in Korea; 4. Southeast Asia; 5. South Asia to 1750; 6. The military revolution in South Asia: 1750-1850; 7. The arrival and departure of the West; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Lorge, Peter A. Lorge, Peter A. (Vanderbilt University Lorge, Peter Allan Lorge
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2008
• EAN: 9780521846820
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84682-0
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: New Approaches to Asian Histor
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous