The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answ...(展开全部)

The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answ...(展开全部)

The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answ...(展开全部)

The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answ...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 杰弗里•帕克教授是英国当代著名的地缘政治学家和军事史学家，现任美国俄亥俄州立大学安德烈亚斯•多帕伦欧洲史教授、莫尚国际安全研究中心成员，英国学术院和西班牙皇家历史学院院士，曾获得2012年喜力历史奖，2014年凭《全球危机》获得英国学术院奖章。曾主编《剑桥战争史》，另著有《菲利普二世的大战略》《皇帝：查理五世传》《菲利普二世传》等。 【译者简介】 廖平，英国牛津大学沃尔夫森学院历史学博士，现任职于安徽师范大学历史学院，从事近代早期英国史、欧洲军事史研究，出版有《英国故事：从11世纪到脱欧动荡，千年历史的四重变奏》《安妮女王时代的英格兰（第二卷）》《复辟：查理二世和他的王国》等译著。

Part of McGraw-Hill's Explorations in World History series, this brief and accessible volume explores one of the biggest questions of recent historical debate: how among all of Eurasia�s interconnected centers of power, it was Europe that came to dominate much of the world. Author Jack Goldstone presents the argument as it stands in light of up-to-date research so that readers ...(展开全部)

丹尼斯·谢尔曼是纽约城市大学约翰·杰伊刑事司法学院(John Jay College of Criminal Justice，the City University of New York)的历史学教授。他在加州大学伯克利分校获得了文学学士学位(1962年)和法学博士学位(1965年)，并在密歇根大学获得了哲学博士(1970年)。他是巴黎大学的访问学者(1978—1979年，1985年)。他曾获得福特基金会学术奖(Ford Foundation Prize Fellowship，1968—1969年，1969—1970年)，获得经济史研究中心学术奖(Council for Research on Economic History，1971—1972年)，获得国家人文科学基金会奖(National Endowment for the Humanitie...(展开全部)

This book reveals and interprets the rich diversity of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Chinese approaches to their own past and the modern West through the lens of the woman question. Writers and activists who engaged in debates over this question variously appropriated biographies of women—a genre with a 2,000-year history in China and a new political salience in the early twent...(展开全部)

季家珍(Joan Judge)美国加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校历史系教授。她透过比较的视角关注近代中国印刷文化、中国妇女史、历史上的阅读，著有《印刷与政治：<时报>与晚清中国的改革文化》(Print and politics：‘Shibao’and the Culture of Reformin Late Qing China，Stanford University Press,1996)，并发表了多篇有关20世纪初中国妇女问题的论文。

This book reveals and interprets the rich diversity of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Chinese approaches to their own past and the modern West through the lens of the woman question. Writers and activists who engaged in debates over this question variously appropriated biographies of women—a genre with a 2,000-year history in China and a new political salience in the early twent...(展开全部)