Add to ORKGBy the eighteenth century, Europeans dominated the military technology of gunpowder weapons. Their dominance was surprising, because the technology had originated in China and had been used with expertise in East and South Asia and the Ottoman Empire. Historians have often invoked competition to account for the Europeans’ military prowess, but competition cannot explain why they forged ahead in developing this technology. The answer lies in the peculiar form that military competition took in western Europe: it was a tournament that induced European rulers to invest heavily in improving the technology of gunpowder weapons. Political incentives and military conditions kept such a tournament from developing in China, Japan, India, and the Otto...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67903/2/10.1177_001946469803500301.pd
Prior to the early part of the 19th century, China’s economy had long been superior to that of the W...
Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial...
Preliminary data from England, France, and Germany show that the relative price of artillery, handgu...
By the eighteenth century, Europeans dominated the military technology of gunpowder weapons, which h...
By the 1700s Europeans dominated the gunpowder technology, which was surprising, because it had orig...
Why did Europeans conquer the rest of the world? The likely cause was a tournament among western Eu...
Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the t...
Price data from England, France, and Germany show that the military sector in western Europe experi...
Thesis: S.B. in History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, 2016.Catal...
Today, per capita income differences around the globe are large varying by as much as a factor of ...
This article critiques explanations of the rise of the West in the early modern period premised on t...
Prevailing views suggest the Industrial Revolution began in Europe because markets had gradually bec...
Today, per capita income differences around the globe are large – varying by as much as a factor of ...
[[abstract]]It is well-known that European cannons, introduced into China in the seventeenth century...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67903/2/10.1177_001946469803500301.pd
Prior to the early part of the 19th century, China’s economy had long been superior to that of the W...
Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial...
Preliminary data from England, France, and Germany show that the relative price of artillery, handgu...
By the eighteenth century, Europeans dominated the military technology of gunpowder weapons, which h...
By the 1700s Europeans dominated the gunpowder technology, which was surprising, because it had orig...
Why did Europeans conquer the rest of the world? The likely cause was a tournament among western Eu...
Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the t...
Price data from England, France, and Germany show that the military sector in western Europe experi...
Thesis: S.B. in History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, 2016.Catal...
Today, per capita income differences around the globe are large varying by as much as a factor of ...
This article critiques explanations of the rise of the West in the early modern period premised on t...
Prevailing views suggest the Industrial Revolution began in Europe because markets had gradually bec...
Today, per capita income differences around the globe are large – varying by as much as a factor of ...
[[abstract]]It is well-known that European cannons, introduced into China in the seventeenth century...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67903/2/10.1177_001946469803500301.pd
Prior to the early part of the 19th century, China’s economy had long been superior to that of the W...
Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial...