The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China: A History, Paperback - David J. Silbey

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Reducere. It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David J. Silbey demonstrates in this taut, compelling h...

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Wayne Soon tells the global health story of Overseas Chinese who transformed medicine in China and Taiwan through the practices of military medicin...

Giving an introduction to the political, social, and cultural development of imperial Chinese civilisation, this work introduces a number of import...

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Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Harold M. TannerIllustration(s): heavily illustratedNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2010Dimen...

The Great War helped China emerge from humiliation and obscurity and take its first tentative steps as a full member of the global community. In 19...

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Promoted to the elite Praetorian Guard in the thick of battle, a young legionary is thrust into a seedy world of imperial politics and corruption. ...

This is the first volume of a Trilogy describing the naval rivalry between Britain and Germany that culminated in them becoming antagonists in the ...

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Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Nell McShane WulfhartNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 243 x 37Cover type: Hard...

The Great Smog of China traces Chinese air pollution events dating back to more than 2, 000 years ago. Based on the authors' fieldwork, interviews ...

The Great Game of Numbers

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Based on the annual Rhind Lectures delivered in May 2019, David J. Breeze presents six papers on Hadrian's Wall. He first considers the historiogra...

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The last eight centuries of China's relationship with the world told through the eyes of traders, invaders, civil servants, visionaries, and traito...

Reducere. The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and...

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Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Harold M. TannerNumber of pages: 414Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 234 x 163 x 20Cover type: Pap...

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