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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Introduction: The Military Pattern of the Chinese Past
Part I: Chinese Beginnings
Chapter 1: The Crucible: The Song Warring States Period
Chapter 2: Early Gunpowder Warfare
Chapter 3: The Mongol Wars and the Evolution of the Gun
Chapter 4: Great Martiality: The Gunpowder Emperor
Part II: Europe Gets the Gun
Chapter 5: The Medieval Gun
Chapter 6: Big Guns: Why Western Europe and Not China Developed Gunpowder Artillery
Chapter 7: The Development of the Classic Gun in Europe
Chapter 8: The Gunpowder Age in Europe
Chapter 9: Cannibals with Cannons: The Sino-Portuguese Clashes of 1521–1522
Part III: An Age of Parity
Chapter 10: The Frankish Cannon
Chapter 11: Drill, Discipline, and the Rise of the West
Chapter 12: The Musket in East Asia
Chapter 13: The Seventeenth Century: An Age of Parity?
Chapter 14: A European Naval Advantage
Chapter 15: The Renaissance Fortress: An Agent of European Expansion?
Part IV: The Great Military Divergence
Chapter 16: The Opium War and the Great Divergence
Chapter 17: A Modernizing Moment: Opium War Reforms
Chapter 18: China’s Modernization and the End of the Gunpowder Age
Conclusions: A New Warring States Period?
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1: Timeline
Appendix 2: Datasets
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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