Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe
Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics
Seiten
2002
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6994-5 (ISBN)
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6994-5 (ISBN)
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war. Bridging the fields of military history and the history of technology -- and challenging past assumptions about Europe's "gunpowder revolution" -- Hall discovers a complex and fascinating story. Military inventors faced a host of challenges, he finds, from Europe's lack of naturally occurring saltpeter -- one of gunpowder's major components -- to the limitations of smooth-bore firearms. Manufacturing cheap, reliable gunpowder proved a difficult feat, as did making firearms that had reasonably predictable performance characteristics. Hall details the efforts of armorers across Europe as they experimented with a variety of gunpowder recipes and gunsmithing techniques, and he examines the integration of new weapons into the existing structure of European warfare.
Bert S. Hall is associate professor at the University of Toronto's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and co-editor of Health, Disease and Healing in Medieval Culture.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.2.2002 |
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Reihe/Serie | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology |
Zusatzinfo | 25 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 476 g |
Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8018-6994-3 / 0801869943 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-6994-5 / 9780801869945 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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