Quotes by : Peter A. Lorge

...the modern bias in contemporary Western scholarship (which has spread to the rest of the world as....

China failed to maintain its technological lead, and a similar failure throughout Asia to take advantage....

... the very appearance of the word ‘‘oriental’’ as a serious geographic or cultural term triggers....

Perhaps the strangest manifestation of the Eurocentric approach to the history of military technology....

European historians have often, though not unanimously, assumed that European modern warfare was the....

Guns neither initiated nor enabled larger changes. Economic, political, and social development preceded....

Technology has become the West’s main prop to its claims of inherent superiority over the non-West,....

Technology is often portrayed as an objective measure of development, and its advancement as something....