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Saltpeter : the mother of gunpowder / David Cressy.
LIBRA TP238 .C74 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cressy, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saltpeter--History.
- Saltpeter.
- Gunpowder--History.
- Gunpowder.
- History.
- Gunpowder industry--History.
- Gunpowder industry.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 237 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- The weird and wonderful tale of saltpeter-'inestimable treasure', source of public 'vexation', and bedrock of national security, from Tudor times to the Victorians. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Mysterious saltpeter
- The gunpowder kingship of Henry VIII
- The Elizabethan quest for infinite security
- Saltpeter for a peaceable kingdom
- The inestimable treasure of Charles I
- Saltpeter revolution
- Saltpeter for a global power
- The New World and the ancien régime.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199695751
- 019969575X
- OCLC:
- 795759762
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