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Title: Firearms : A Global History to 1700 by Kenneth Chase ISBN: 0-521-82274-2 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 07 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Incredibly concise, lucid, and very, very interesting!
Comment: I usually don't go for history books that deal with the time period of Chase's book. But this book is the exception to that rule. Chase's expertise comes from simply being interested in the topic. He's not even a "professional historian" i.e. someone who gets paid to write books like this. He is in fact an attorney who just had an interest in how nomads and firearms are connected and why it was that Europe perfected firearms when it was Asia, specifically China, that invented them. He takes the reader through a huge span of history and through several sections of what he refers to as "the Oikoumene", or that which encompasses Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and some other small areas. Chase methodically explains the evolution and application of firearms and gives historical context for both his ideas and his explanations. This was a great read, and since I am very interested in military history, this book filled in the majority of the pieces missing in my understanding of early-modern military history. Mr. Chase, I'd just ask you one favor: write another book so I can buy it and enjoy it as much as I enjoyed this one.
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Title: Battle: A History of Combat and Culture by John A. Lynn ISBN: 0813333717 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer ISBN: 039332396X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War by Williamson Murray, Allan R. Millett ISBN: 0674006801 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Maps of Time : An Introduction to Big History by David Christian ISBN: 0520235002 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The First World War by John Keegan ISBN: 0375700455 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 16 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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