The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China, Paperback - Julia Lovell

Reducere. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a health...

An exploration of the first Opium War between Britain and China, which began in 1839. Over the past 170 years, this strange tale of misunderstandin...

In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does it mean to be a Chinese art...

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Reducere. ``Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read.`` --Asian Review of Books on Division to Unificat...

This book covers the Paper 3 topic The making of modern China 1860-1997 in the Edexcel A level specification for first teaching from September 2015...

In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth.The Penguin History of Modern China shows how ...

The Palm House at Kew has been one of Britain's most popular attractions since it opened in 1848 - this is the story of its creation and the men wh...

DescriptionThis study tells the epic story of how a routed group of Chinese Communists marched tens of thousands of miles with Mao on a journey tha...

The Palm House at Kew has been one of Britain's most popular attractions since it opened in 1848 - this is the story of its creation and the men wh...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Reducere. A new and important history of the epic story of the Great Wall of China that guides the reader through the conquests and cataclysms of the Chinese...

The Opium War of 1839-42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and it...

Explores the history of China from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to the present day. Essential reading for anyone who wants to under...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter PesicIllustration(s): 143 figuresNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 231 x 28Cover...

The definitive history of the Opium War between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize.

The Opium War of 1839-42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and it...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

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William Bennett's moral guide for children, "A Book of Virtues", was a national bestseller. Yet, many continue to associate virtue with a prudish, ...

Reducere. Acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, returns with a lacerating analysis of the history of st...

Reducere. For the first time in English print, the complete story of the making of one of the most significant and influential films of the 20th Century. Ori...

A gripping and fast-paced narrative, Pulizer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik tells the story of the titanic battle between two giants of the Gilded Ag...

Reducere. Chosen as one of the top history book of the year by The Economist From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of...

What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of a...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Mark MazowerNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 166 x 240 x 44Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of sh...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This account of the life of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel follows his beginnings in the Lower East Side of New York to his role in the development of the...

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Takaaki InuzukaIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorTranslator: Haruko LauriePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x...

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans In 1869, when the final spik...

This book offers a new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, exploring the conflict both within and beyond the framework of the Col...

The first nomadic empire and the making of China has its story told with meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, weighing in on the ci...

Reducere. During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate, " a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived...

Reducere. From the former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, the first biography of advertising maverick David OgilvyFamous for his colorful personality and formidable ...

Reducere. When this work - one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields - first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of th...

Shows how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal chang...

The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: "It wouldn't have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around." ... H...

Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance.

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Reducere. Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudevill...

Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of modern Egyptian history and the rise of Egyptian nationalism in a theoretically informed study. The boo...