Gunpowder Explosives and the State: A Technological History

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Hardcover
2006
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Presents an investigation of the technology of explosives manufacture, with chapters ranging in scope from the Old World to the New, from sources of raw materials in south-east Asia to the complications of manufacture in the West. This book shows that the story is more than the simple one of how an intriguing product was made.

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Presents an investigation of the technology of explosives manufacture, with chapters ranging in scope from the Old World to the New, from sources of raw materials in south-east Asia to the complications of manufacture in the West. This book shows that the story is more than the simple one of how an intriguing product was made.

$167.69

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 425
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Published: 28 May 2006
ISBN 10: 0754652599
ISBN 13: 9780754652595