Saltpeter. The mother of gunpowder
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- Author(s) Cressy, David
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2013
- Pages 237pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly account of the saltpeter industry in England and its colonies largely in the 16th and 17th centuries and the 'social, legal, political, economic, scientific and military' factors impacting upon it