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

Carlo M. Cipolla, Carlo M. Cipolla

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

Carlo M. Cipolla, Carlo M. Cipolla

192 pages first pub 1965 (editions)

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Guns, Sails and Empires is that rarity among works of history: a short book with a simple, powerful thesis that the entire book is devoted to proving. Carlo Cipolla begins with the question, "Why, after the end of the fifteenth century were the Eu...

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