Firearms : a global history to 1700 / Kenneth Chase.
Firearms : a global history to 1700 / Kenneth Chase.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2003.
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N623.442/5
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 290 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. China to 1500 -- 3. Europe -- 4. Western Islamdom -- 5. Eastern Islamdom -- 6. China from 1500 -- 7. Korea and Japan -- 8. Conclusion.
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2003.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2003.
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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 surpassed all others. It asks why it was the Europeans who perfected firearms when it was the Chinese who invented them, but it answers this question by examining how firearms were use...
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Firearms : a global history to 1700 / Kenneth Chase.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2003.
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N623.442/5
Record Identifier
74VvxBP2Q4bM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvxBP2Q4bM
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ISBN
0521822742 :
9780521822749
0521822742
9780521822749 :
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623.442
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991016894129702626
