<p>Guns, Sails and Empires is that rarity among works of history: a short book with a simple, powerful thesis that the entire book is devoted to proving. Carlo Cipolla begins with the question, "Why, after the end of the fifteenth century were the Europeans able not only to force their way through to the distant Spice Islands but also to gain control of all the major sea-routes and to establish overseas empires.</p>

Guns, Sails, and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion, 1400- 1700

Cipolla, Caro M.

Sunflower University Press

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Guns, Sails, and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion, 1400- 1700