Sale!
25% Off

Musket, Map and Money:: How Military Technology Shaped Geopolitics and Economics

4856.000

1 in stock


AuthorJi, Teng
ISBN9788376560588
Published LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
PublisherDe Gruyter Open Poland
BindingHardback
Original Price€70.00
Pages196
Ships By2-3 days

Description

Waves of military technological changes have swept through the Eurasian land mass since the dawn of civilization. Military technological changes decisively shaped geopolitics and the fortunes of states, empires and civilizations. In his book Jimmy Teng claims that to understand the impacts of these military technological changes is in fact to understand the causes behind the following major historical puzzles or important facts: the leading position of the Near East during the dawn of civilization the splendid achievements of Greece, India and China during the axial era the classical golden age of India under the Gupta Empire the Abbasid Golden Age of the Islamic world and the Sung Puzzle of China during the medieval era and the rise of the West during the early modern and modern era.

Additional information

Weight0.523 kg
Dimensions24 × 17 cm
Author

,

ISBN

Publisher

Original Price

Pages

196

Ships By

2-3 days