Firearms: A Global History to 1700Cambridge University Press, 7 juil. 2003 - 290 pages 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. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
The Oikoumene | 6 |
The Steppe | 8 |
The Desert | 12 |
Logistics | 16 |
Cavalry | 19 |
Firearms | 23 |
China to 1500 | 28 |
Eastern Islamdom | 112 |
Iran | 113 |
The Safavid Military | 115 |
Azarbayjan | 119 |
Khurasan | 122 |
Safavid Success or Failure? | 125 |
India | 127 |
The Afghans | 129 |
The Invention of Firearms | 30 |
The Rise of the Ming | 33 |
The Ming Military | 35 |
The Hongwu Campaigns | 41 |
The Yongle Campaigns | 43 |
Vietnam | 47 |
The South Seas | 49 |
Tumu | 52 |
Europe | 56 |
The Introduction of Firearms | 58 |
Sieges and Battles | 61 |
Geography | 65 |
Guns and Horses | 68 |
Guns and Ships | 70 |
Guns and Bows | 73 |
Eastern Europe | 76 |
The Americas | 80 |
Western Islamdom | 83 |
Turkey | 84 |
The Ottoman Military | 86 |
The Balkans | 89 |
The Mediterranean | 93 |
Ottoman Success | 95 |
Egypt | 98 |
The Mamluk Military | 100 |
Border Wars | 101 |
Marj Dabiq | 104 |
Mamluk Failure | 106 |
The Maghrib | 107 |
SubSaharan Africa | 109 |
The Mughals | 131 |
The Portuguese | 134 |
Southeast Asia | 136 |
China from 1500 | 141 |
Foreign Firearms | 142 |
New Chinese Firearms | 145 |
Institutional Change | 150 |
Japanese Pirates | 154 |
The Great Wall | 158 |
Wagons | 162 |
The Fall of the Ming | 166 |
The Conquest of the Steppe | 169 |
Korea and Japan | 172 |
Japan | 175 |
Tanegashima | 178 |
Nobunaga | 180 |
Unification | 183 |
The First Invasion of Korea | 186 |
The Korean Response | 188 |
The Second Invasion of Korea | 190 |
The Tokugawa | 193 |
Conclusion | 197 |
Firearms after 1700 | 199 |
The World after 1700 | 202 |
Wagons and Pikes | 205 |
Firearms and Nomads | 207 |
Notes | 211 |
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