books.google.com.au - Kenneth Chase traces the history of firearms from their invention in China in the 1100s to the 1700s, when European firearms had become clearly superior. In Firearms, Chase asks why it was the Europeans who perfected firearms, not the Chinese, and answers this question by looking at how firearms were...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Firearms.html?id=esnWJkYRCJ4C&q=defeated&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFirearms
