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Guns, Sails, and Empires

Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion, 1400-1700

by Carlo M. Cipolla · 1965 · 192 pages

Paul Graham
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An analysis of how technological breakthroughs in heavy artillery and deep-sea sailing vessels facilitated European global dominance between 1400 and 1700. The work examines the shift from human-powered galleys to gun-armed sailing ships and explains why European nations succeeded in overseas expansion where other empires did not.

Genres

Science & TechnologyEconomics & FinanceHistory

Topics

ArtilleryColonialismInnovationNavigationShipbuilding

Book Details

Published

1965

Pages

192

Language

en

ISBN

9780897450713

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