Gunpowder Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gunpowder Empire write by Harry Turtledove. This book was released on 2004-10. Gunpowder Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The launch of an exciting new series of parallel-world adventure from "the modern master of alternate history" (Publishers Weekly)
Islamic Gunpowder Empires
Islamic Gunpowder Empires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islamic Gunpowder Empires write by Douglas E. Streusand. This book was released on 2018-05-04. Islamic Gunpowder Empires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam's three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centered in what is now Turkey), the Safavids (in modern Iran), and the Mughals (ruling the Indian subcontinent). Author Douglas Streusand explains the origins of the three empires; compares the ideological, institutional, military, and economic contributors to their success; and analyzes the causes of their rise, expansion, and ultimate transformation and decline. Streusand depicts the three empires as a part of an integrated international system extending from the Atlantic to the Straits of Malacca, emphasizing both the connections and the conflicts within that system. He presents the empires as complex polities in which Islam is one political and cultural component among many. The treatment of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires incorporates contemporary scholarship, dispels common misconceptions, and provides an excellent platform for further study.
The Age of Gunpowder Empires, 1450-1800
The Age of Gunpowder Empires, 1450-1800 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Gunpowder Empires, 1450-1800 write by William Hardy McNeill. This book was released on 1989. The Age of Gunpowder Empires, 1450-1800 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Empire and Gunpowder
Empire and Gunpowder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire and Gunpowder write by Moumita Chowdhury. This book was released on 2022-07-19. Empire and Gunpowder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the relation between technology, warfare and state in South Asia in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. It explores how gunpowder and artillery played a pivotal role in the military ascendancy of the East India Company in India. The monograph argues that the contemporary Indian military landscape was extremely dynamic, with contemporary indigenous polities (Mysore, the Maratha Confederacy and the Khalsa Kingdom) attempting to transform their military systems by modelling their armies on European lines. It shows how the Company established an edge through an efficient bureaucracy and a standardised manufacturing system, while the Indian powers primarily focused on continuous innovation and failed to introduce standardisation of production. Drawing on archival records from India and the UK, this volume makes a significant intervention in our understanding of the rise of the British Empire in South Asia. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially military history, military and strategic studies and South Asian studies.
Gunpowder Empire
Gunpowder Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gunpowder Empire write by Harry Turtledove. This book was released on 2010-04-01. Gunpowder Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The launch of an exciting new series of parallel-world adventure, from "the modern master of alternate history" Harry Turtledove (Publishers Weekly) In Gunpowder Empire, Jeremy Solter is a teenager growing up in the late 21st century. During the school year, his family lives in Southern California--but during the summer the whole family lives and works on the frontier of the Roman Empire. Not the Roman Empire that fell centuries ago, but a Roman Empire that never fell: a parallel timeline, one of an infinity of possible worlds. For in our timeline, we now have the technology to move among these. Some are uninhabitable; some are ghastly, such as the one where Germany won World War II. But many are full of resources and raw materials that our world can use. So we send traders and businesspeople--but to keep the secret of crosstime traffic to ourselves, these traders are trained, in whole-family groups, to pass as natives. But when Jeremy's mother gets sick--really sick, the kind you can't cure with antibiotics. Both parents duck out through the gateway for a quick visit to the doctor. But while they're gone, the gateways stop working. So do the communications links to their home timeline. The kids are on their own, and things are looking bad. The Lietuvans are invading. The city is besieged. The kids are doing their best to carry on business and act like everything's normal, but there's only so much you can do when cannonballs are crashing through your roof. And in the meantime, the city government has gotten suspicious, and is demanding a *full* report on how their family does business, where they get their superior merchandise, why they want all that wheat ...exactly the questions they don't want to answer. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
