Quotes by Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb

Explore a curated collection of 8 quotes by Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

European historians have often, though not unanimously, assumed that European modern warfare was the one true path, a sy — Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
Guns neither initiated nor enabled larger changes. Economic, political, and social development preceded and laid the fou — Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
Technology is often portrayed as an objective measure of development, and its advancement as something that can be exami — Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
...the modern bias in contemporary Western scholarship (which has spread to the rest of the world as well) insists upon — Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
Perhaps the strangest manifestation of the Eurocentric approach to the history of military technology is ... the attempt — Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
Technology has become the West’s main prop to its claims of inherent superiority over the non-West, and the reason why t — Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
... the very appearance of the word ‘‘oriental’’ as a serious geographic or cultural term triggers alarm bells for any A — Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
China failed to maintain its technological lead, and a similar failure throughout Asia to take advantage of the early ex — Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb