Gunpowder, Explosives and the State (eBook, ePUB)

A Technological History
Redaktion: Buchanan, Brenda J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gunpowder studies are still in their infancy despite the long-standing civil and military importance of this explosive since its discovery in China in the mid-ninth century AD. This volume is the first to develop the implications of the subject, not just in the sense of relating it to changing military technologies, but in that of seeing the securing of gunpowder supplies as fundamental to the power of the state and imperial pretensions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 449
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351931908
• Artikelnr.: 49355330

Autorenporträt

Brenda J. Buchanan is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword; Editor's introduction: setting the context. Part 1 Modern Perceptions and Ancient Knowledge: Realities and perceptions in the evolution of black powder making
Robert A. Howard; Gunpowder and its applications in ancient India
Asitesh Bhattacharya; The Indian response to firearms
1300-1750
Iqtidar Alam Khan; Saltpetre: a commodity of Empire
Brenda J. Buchanan. Part 2 The Production of Saltpetre and Gunpowder in Europe: Venetian gunpowder in the second half of the 16th century: production
storage and use
Walter Panciera; The Barcarena gunpowder factory: its history and technological evolution between the 17th and 20th centuries
António C. Quintela
João LuÃs Cardoso and José Manuel de Mascarenhas; Saltpetre at the intersection of military and agricultural interests in 18th-century Sweden
Thomas Kaiserfeld; Torsebro powder mills
Sweden: manufacturing and testing the product
Leif MÃ¥rtensson. Part 3 The Overseas Transfer of Technology From Europe: Portuguese overseas gunpowder factories
in particular those of Goa (India) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
José Manuel de Mascarenhas; Gunpowder manufacture in Cairo from Bonaparte to Muhammad 'Alî : adaptation
innovation and the transfer of technology
1798-1820
Patrice Bret; ÿlève des Poudres: E.I. du Pont's multiple transfers of French technology
Darwin H. Stapleton; Unorthodox British technology at the Confederate Gunpowder Works
Augusta
Georgia
1862-65
William S. Curtis. Part 4 Military Technicalities: Breech-loading guns with removable powder chambers: a long-lived military technology
Kelly DeVries and Robert Douglas Smith; The smelting of iron cannons and consumption of gunpowder in Gipuzkoa in the 16th century
Ignacio M. Carrión Arregui; Rational mechanics as enlightenment engineering: Leonhard Euler and interior ballistics
Brett D. Steele; Pellets
pebbles and prisms: British munitions for larger guns
1860-85
Seymour H. Mauskopf. Part 5 Modern Developments: Scie