
by David Cressy (Author)
The story of the science, the technology, the politics and the military applications of saltpeter - the vital but mysterious substance that governments from the Tudors to the Victorians regarded as an 'inestimable treasure'.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 10 Jan 2013
ISBN 10: 019969575X
ISBN 13: 9780199695751