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Imperial Twilight
The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
Häftad, 2019
171 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA Financial Times Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year ________________________________________'Entertaining and well-paced... Platt's compelling book is a sobering read that should focus the minds of those who like to talk of the …
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Häftad, 2012
256 kr
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
E-bok, 2012
233 kr
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A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped …
Imperial Twilight
The Opium War and the End of China''s Last Golden Age
E-bok, 2018
221 kr
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The definitive history of the Opium War--a vivid narrative of the earliest Western efforts to open China to trade and the resulting war that ensured the decline of imperial China. When Britain declared war on China in 1839, it sealed the fate of what had been, for centuries, the wealthiest and most …
Raider
The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II
Inbunden, 2025
337 kr
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL • The extraordinary life of forgotten World War II hero Evans Carlson, commander of America’s first special forces, secret confidant of FDR, and one of the most controversial officers in the history of the Marine Corps, who dedicated his …
Provincial Patriots
The Hunanese and Modern China
Inbunden, 2007
784 kr
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From the Taiping Rebellion in the mid-nineteenth century to the Chinese Communist movement in the twentieth, no province in China gave rise to as many reformers, military officers, and revolutionaries as did Hunan. Stephen Platt offers the first comprehensive study of why Hunan wielded such …
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
China, The West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Häftad, 2013
203 kr
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In the early 1850s, during the twilight of the Qing dynasty, word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces. The leader of this movement - who called themselves the Taiping - was Hong Xiuquan, a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and the brother of Jesus Christ. As …
