ผู้เขียน: Tonio Andrade

How a Chinese pirate defeated European colonialists and won Taiwan during the seventeenth century During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world’s most dynamic colonial empire, outcompetin …

A first look at gunpowder’s revolutionary impact on China’s role in global history The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the …

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This book presents a great deal of new primary research on a wide range of aspects of early modern East Asia. Focusing primarily on maritime connections, the book explores the importance of internati …

This book presents a great deal of new primary research on a wide range of aspects of early modern East Asia. Focusing primarily on maritime connections, the book explores the importance of internati …

This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limi …

This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limi …

From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century George Macartney’s disastrous 1793 mission to Ch …

Highlights ‘the range and richness of scholarship on medieval warfare, military institutions, and cultures of conflict that characterize the field’. History 95 (2010) Warfare on the periphery of Euro …