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Scramble for China
Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914
Häftad, 2012
192 kr
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In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of much of the rest of the world, carved into …
Empire Made Me
An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai
E-bok, 2004
136 kr
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'This is a biography of a nobody that offers a window into an otherwise closed world. It is a life which manages to touch us all...' Empire Made MeShanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities - an incredible panorama of nightclubs, …
Scramble for China
Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914
E-bok, 2016
147 kr
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In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of much of the rest of the world, carved into …
Getting Stuck in For Shanghai
Putting the Kibosh on the Kaiser from theBund: The British at Shanghai and the Great War: Penguin Specials
E-bok, 2014
126 kr
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After 1914, between tiffin and a day at the race track, the British in Shanghai enjoyed a life far removed from the horrors of the Great War. Shanghai''s status as a treaty port – with its foreign concessions home to expatriates from every corner of the globe – made it the most cosmopolitan city in …
Settlers and Expatriates
Britons over the Seas
Av Robert Bickers, Robert Bickers
Häftad, 2014
751 kr
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The British Empire gave rise to various new forms of British identity in the colonial world outside the Dominions. In cities and colonies, and in sovereign states subject to more informal pressures such as Argentina or China, communities of Britons developed identities inflected by local ambitions …
Settlers and Expatriates
Britons over the Seas
Inbunden, 2010
2258 kr
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The British Empire gave rise to various new forms of British identity in the colonial world outside the Dominions. In cities and colonies, and in sovereign states subject to more informal pressures such as Argentina or China, communities of Britons developed identities inflected by local ambitions …
Empire Made Me
An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai
Inbunden, 2004
1267 kr
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Richard Maurice Tinkler was an ordinary man in an extraordinary time and place. This riveting "biography of a nobody" offers a rare glimpse of imperialism and the making of modern China seen from the perspective of a working-class Englishman enforcing the order of everyday life on the streets of …
Treaty Ports in Modern China
Law, Land and Power
Av Robert Bickers, Isabella Jackson
Inbunden, 2016
3173 kr
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This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction of …
Britain and China, 1840-1970
Empire, Finance and War
Av Robert Bickers, Jonathan Howlett
Inbunden, 2015
2600 kr
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This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as fi nance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on both …
Out of China – How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
Inbunden, 2026
391 kr
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Nationalism matters in China, and what matters in China matters to everyone. China's new nationalism, Robert Bickers shows, is rooted not in its present power but in shameful memories of its former weaknesses. Invaded, humiliated, and looted in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by foreign …
Out of China
How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
Häftad, 2018
192 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEThe extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today.Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the handful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated and looted, China nonetheless …
Britain in China
Häftad, 1999
382 kr
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This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait …
New Frontiers
Imperialism's New Communities in East Asia, 1842–1953
Av Robert Bickers, Christian Henriot
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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In the new world order mapped out by Japanese and Western imperialism in East Asia after the mid-nineteenth century opium wars, communities of merchants and settlers took root in China and Korea. New identities were constructed, new modes of collaboration formed and new boundaries between the …
Boxers, China, and the World
Av Robert Bickers, R. G. Tiedemann
Inbunden, 2007
1616 kr
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In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multidisciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer War, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and …
Boxers, China, and the World
Av Robert Bickers, R. G. Tiedemann
Häftad, 2007
636 kr
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In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multidisciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer War, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and …
Boxers, China, and the World
Av Robert Bickers, R. G. Tiedemann
E-bok, 2007
690 kr
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In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multidisciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer War, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and …
Britain and China, 1840-1970
Empire, Finance and War
Av Robert Bickers, Jonathan Howlett
Häftad, 2018
882 kr
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This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as fi nance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on both …
Treaty Ports in Modern China
Law, Land and Power
Av Robert Bickers, Isabella Jackson
Häftad, 2018
957 kr
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This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction of …
Treaty Ports in Modern China
Law, Land and Power
Av Isabella Jackson, Robert Bickers
E-bok, 2016
1124 kr
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This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction …
Treaty Ports in Modern China
Law, Land and Power
Av Isabella Jackson, Robert Bickers
E-bok, 2016
1099 kr
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This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction …
Britain and China, 1840-1970
Empire, Finance and War
Av Jonathan Howlett, Robert Bickers
E-bok, 2015
1034 kr
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This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as fi nance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on …
Britain and China, 1840-1970
Empire, Finance and War
Av Jonathan Howlett, Robert Bickers
E-bok, 2015
1034 kr
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This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as fi nance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on …
Lion Rock
A New History of Hong Kong
Inbunden, 2027
286 kr
Kommande
A definitive new history of Hong Kong.Lion Rock is the epic story of Asia's global city and its people, sitting on the edge of China yet under British jurisdiction, spanning both empires and belonging to neither, growing an economy at a furious pace and developing its own unique identity. It is …
Lion Rock
A New History of Hong Kong
Häftad, 2027
197 kr
Kommande
A definitive new history of Hong Kong, marking the 30th anniversary of its return to China.
China Bound
John Swire & Sons and its World, 1816 – 1980
E-bok, 2020
471 kr
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From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies. John Swire & Sons, a small trading company that began by importing dyes, cotton and apples from the …
China Bound
John Swire & Sons and its World, 1816 – 1980
E-bok, 2020
482 kr
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From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies. John Swire & Sons, a small trading company that began by importing dyes, cotton and apples from the …
Britain in China
E-bok, 2017
273 kr
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This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait …
New Frontiers
Imperialism's New Communities in East Asia, 1842–1953
Av Robert Bickers, Christian Henriot
E-bok, 2017
285 kr
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In the new world order mapped out by Japanese and Western imperialism in East Asia after the mid-nineteenth century opium wars, communities of merchants and settlers took root in China and Korea. New identities were constructed, new modes of collaboration formed and new boundaries between the …
Out of China
How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
E-bok, 2017
125 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEThe extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today.Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the handful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated and looted, China nonetheless …
May Days in Hong Kong – Riot and Emergency in 1967
Av Robert Bickers, Ray Yep m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
545 kr
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In this study of the anti-colonial riots which erupted in Hong Kong in May 1967, the authors shed new light on their causes, their impact on future government policy and on Sino-British relations, and their legacy for Hong Kong society and governance, and the people of the territory.
