PDF Drive offered in: English »

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age

148 Páginas · 2018 · 5.49 MB · inglés

by Stephen R. Platt

twilight imperialism

Libros electrónicos gratis similares

China's Last Empire: The Great Qing (History of Imperial China)

369 Páginas·2009·2.12 MB·Nuevo!

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looki ...
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

448 Páginas·2016·3.25 MB·Nuevo!

...
Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates

502 Páginas·1998·5.03 MB·Nuevo!

This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forc ...
The Opium Wars

354 Páginas·2004·1.94 MB·Nuevo!

In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between Britain and China are recou ...
Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping

737 Páginas·2019·18.8 MB·Nuevo!

It is tempting to attribute China’s recent ascendance to changes in political leadership and economic policy. Making C ...
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

432 Páginas·2011·3.69 MB·Nuevo!

"On the outside, [the foreigners] seem intractable, but inside they are cowardly...Although there have been a few ups-an ...
Merchants of War and Peace: British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War

241 Páginas·2017·2.72 MB·Nuevo!

Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were t ...
China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (History of Imperial China)

367 Páginas·2009·2.11 MB·Nuevo!

The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections ...
China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China)

351 Páginas·2009·4.41 MB·Nuevo!

After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces ...
A Short History of China and Southeast Asia

289 Páginas·2007·4.52 MB

ring to the use of violence in a punitive sense. Powerful empires did arise in India—the Mauryan empire under Ashoka ...

Cargar archivos PDF más similares