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Firearms - A Global History to 1700 (Paperback)
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Firearms - A Global History to 1700 (Paperback)
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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 Europe with no
rival in firearms design, production, or use, with lasting
consequences. After earning his doctorate from Harvard in the area
of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and traveling extensively
in Asia, Kenneth Chase pursued a career in the law. His interest in
history endures unabated, however, and after nine years of research
on firearms, he is now working on a history of international trade
in the Indian Ocean region in the 1300s and 1400s.
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