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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I. Chinese Beginnings
5. CHAPTER 1. The Crucible 15
6. CHAPTER 2. Early Gunpowder Warfare 29
7. CHAPTER 3. The Mongol Wars and the Evolution of the Gun, 1211–1279 44
8. CHAPTER 4. Great Martiality 55
9. PART II. Europe Gets the Gun
10. CHAPTER 5. The Medieval Gun 75
11. CHAPTER 6. Big Guns 88
12. CHAPTER 7. The Development of the Classic Gun in Europe 103
13. CHAPTER 8. The Gunpowder Age in Europe 115
14. CHAPTER 9. Cannibals with Cannons 124
15. PART III. An Age of Parity
16. CHAPTER 10. The Frankish Cannon 135
17. CHAPTER 11. Drill, Discipline, and the Rise of the West 144
18. CHAPTER 12. The Musket in East Asia 166
19. CHAPTER 13. The Seventeenth Century 188
20. CHAPTER 14. A European Naval Advantage 196
21. CHAPTER 15. The Renaissance Fortress 211
22. PART IV. The Great Military Divergence
23. CHAPTER 16. The Opium War and the Great Divergence 237
24. CHAPTER 17. A Modernizing Moment 257
25. CHAPTER 18. China’s Modernization and the End of the Gunpowder Age 273
26. Conclusions 297
27. Acknowledgments 307
28. Appendix 1. Timeline 311
29. Appendix 2. Datasets 312
30. Abbreviations 317
31. Notes 319
32. Bibliography 379
33. Index 421