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18 produkter
Lost Colony
The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West
Häftad, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
289 kr
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During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War - Europe's first war with China - the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga. Part …
How Taiwan Became Chinese
Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century
Inbunden, 2008
1425 kr
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At the beginning of the 1600s, Taiwan was a sylvan backwater, sparsely inhabited by headhunters and visited mainly by pirates and fishermen. By the end of the century it was home to more than a hundred thousand Chinese colonists, who grew rice and sugar for export on world markets. This book …
Early Modern East Asia
War, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange
Av Kenneth M. Swope, Tonio Andrade
Häftad, 2019
814 kr
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This book presents a great deal of new primary research on a wide range of aspects of early modern East Asia. Focusing primarily on maritime connections, the book explores the importance of international trade networks, the implications of technological dissemination, and the often unforeseen …
Last Embassy
The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
Inbunden, 2021
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430 kr
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From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily …
Gunpowder Age
China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
Häftad, 2017
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289 kr
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The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of …
Last Embassy
The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
E-bok, 2021
294 kr
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From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age , a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century George Macartney''s disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily …
Last Embassy
The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
Häftad, 2025
227 kr
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From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily …
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai
Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700
Häftad, 2019
352 kr
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Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long …
Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History
Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Parker
Av William Reger, Tonio Andrade
Häftad, 2017
785 kr
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This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, …
Early Modern East Asia
War, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange
Av Kenneth M. Swope, Tonio Andrade
Inbunden, 2017
3147 kr
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This book presents a great deal of new primary research on a wide range of aspects of early modern East Asia. Focusing primarily on maritime connections, the book explores the importance of international trade networks, the implications of technological dissemination, and the often unforeseen …
Early Modern East Asia
War, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange
Av Tonio Andrade, Kenneth M. Swope
E-bok, 2017
963 kr
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This book presents a great deal of new primary research on a wide range of aspects of early modern East Asia. Focusing primarily on maritime connections, the book explores the importance of international trade networks, the implications of technological dissemination, and the often unforeseen …
Early Modern East Asia
War, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange
Av Tonio Andrade, Kenneth M. Swope
E-bok, 2017
942 kr
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This book presents a great deal of new primary research on a wide range of aspects of early modern East Asia. Focusing primarily on maritime connections, the book explores the importance of international trade networks, the implications of technological dissemination, and the often unforeseen …
Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History
Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Parker
Av William Reger, Tonio Andrade
E-bok, 2016
927 kr
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This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, …
Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History
Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Parker
Av William Reger, Tonio Andrade
E-bok, 2016
927 kr
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This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, …
Lost Colony
The Untold Story of China''s First Great Victory over the West
E-bok, 2011
412 kr
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How a Chinese pirate defeated European colonialists and won Taiwan during the seventeenth century During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world''s most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War—Europe''s …
Gunpowder Age
China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
E-bok, 2016
403 kr
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A first look at gunpowder''s revolutionary impact on China''s role in global history The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in …
Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History
Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Parker
Av William Reger, Tonio Andrade
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, …
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai
Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700
Inbunden, 2016
970 kr
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Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the contested and fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for centuries, but it was …
