Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology and Tactics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) - Hardcover

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9780801855313: Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology and Tactics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

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Combining military history and the history of technology, the author of this work explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the 13th to the 16th century. The "gunpowder revolution" is reassessed as an evolutionary process which transformed the European way of war and influenced statecraft.

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"The best book yet on military history in the era from the Hundred Years' War to the Thirty Years' War." -- Frederic J. Baumgartner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Synopsis

Combining military history and the history of technology, the author of this work explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the 13th to the 16th century. The "gunpowder revolution" is reassessed as an evolutionary process which transformed the European way of war and influenced statecraft.

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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
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