Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 13 minutes ago

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Tonio Andrade’s “The Gunpowder Age” is one of the most important books in the Great Divergence debate to have been published recently. He not only argues for the central importance of gunpowder technology in this debate, but also reassesses China’s relationship with the technology during the Ming and Q’ing Dynasties. Anyone seeking to understand the debate must read this at some point