简介：
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 Asia and South Asia - from the ninth through the twentieth century. As the book makes clear, the spread of war and its technology had devastating consequences on the political and cultural fabric of those early societies although each reacted very differently. The book, which is packed with information about military strategy, interregional warfare and the development of armaments, also engages with the major debates and challenges traditional thinking on Europe's contribution to military technology in Asia. Articulate and comprehensive, this book will be a welcome addition to the undergraduate classroom and to all those interested in Asian studies and military history.
关键词：
military classics, global history, wokou raids, Southeast Asia, South Asia, The Asian Military Revolution
作者简介：
PETER LORGE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. His previous publications include War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China (2005) and The International Reader in Military History: China Pre-1600 (2005).
分类: Asian history; Military history; Weapons & equipment
ISBN:9780521846820
书名:Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
副书名:From Gunpowder to the Bomb
丛书名:New Approaches to Asian History
作者:Lorge, Peter
装帧:Hardback
出版社:Cambridge University Press
页数:200
出版日期:7/10/2008
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