Guns, Sails and Empires: Technological Innovations and the Early Phases of European Expansion, 1400-1700 by Carlo M. Cipolla

Guns, Sails and Empires: Technological Innovations and the Early Phases of European Expansion, 1400-1700

Carlo M. Cipolla

192 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction history technology informative inspiring slow-paced
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So thoroughly do we assume the military and political superiority of the Western world that we forget that throughout the Middle Ages Europe was weak, vulnerable, besieged, and almost always on the defensive. This original work explains how Europe...

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