The Asian military revolution : from gunpowder to the bomb /

Records show that the Chinese invented gunpowder in the 800s. By the 1200s they had unleashed the first weapons of war upon their unsuspecting neighbours. This extraordinarily ambitious book traces the history of that invention and its impact on the surrounding Asian world - Korea, Japan, South East...

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Main Author: Lorge, Peter Allan, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:New approaches to Asian history ; 3.
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