دانلود کتاب The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History

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Contents\nIntroduction\nPART I. Chinese Beginnings\nCHAPTER 1. The Crucible\nCHAPTER 2. Early Gunpowder Warfare\nCHAPTER 3. The Mongol Wars and the Evolution of the Gun, 1211–1279\nCHAPTER 4. Great Martiality\nPART II. Europe Gets the Gun\nCHAPTER 5. The Medieval Gun\nCHAPTER 6. Big Guns\nCHAPTER 7. The Development of the Classic Gun in Europe\nCHAPTER 8. The Gunpowder Age in Europe\nCHAPTER 9. Cannibals with Cannons\nPART III. An Age of Parity\nCHAPTER 10. The Frankish Cannon\nCHAPTER 11. Drill, Discipline, and the Rise of the West\nCHAPTER 12. The Musket in East Asia\nCHAPTER 13. The Seventeenth Century\nCHAPTER 14. A European Naval Advantage\nCHAPTER 15. The Renaissance Fortress\nPART IV. The Great Military Divergence\nCHAPTER 16. The Opium War and the Great Divergence\nCHAPTER 17. A Modernizing Moment\nCHAPTER 18. China’s Modernization and the End of the Gunpowder Age\nConclusions\nAcknowledgments\nAppendix 1. Timeline\nAppendix 2. Datasets\nAbbreviations\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex