Gabor Agoston, Agoston Gabor, G. Bor Goston

Guns for the Sultan

Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book affords insight into the early success and subsequent failure of an Islamic empire against European adversaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780521603911
• ISBN-10: 0521603919
• Artikelnr.: 24249566

Autorenporträt

Gabor Agoston is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Georgetown University. His previous publications include Hungary in the Seventeenth Century (with Terez Oborni, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: firearms and armaments industries
2. Gunpowder technology and the Ottomans
3. Cannons and muskets
4. Saltpeter industries
5. Gunpowder industries
6. Munitions and ordnance industries
7. Conclusions: guns and empire
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index.