The Cambridge History of China: Volume 9, The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Part 2
Title | The Cambridge History of China: Volume 9, The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Part 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Willard J. Peterson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2016-04-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316445046 |
Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural production, political order and military domination peaked and then began to unravel. The book sheds new light on the changing systems deployed under the Ch'ing dynasty to govern its large, multi-ethnic Empire and surveys the dynasty's complex relations with neighbouring states and Europe. In this compelling and authoritative account of a significant era of early modern Chinese history, the volume illustrates the ever-changing nature of the Ch'ing Empire, and provides context for the unforeseeable challenges that the nineteenth century would bring.
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
Title | The Cambridge Illustrated History of China PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Buckley Ebrey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1999-05-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521669917 |
A look at the over eight thousand year history and civilization of China.
The Cambridge History of Ancient China
Title | The Cambridge History of Ancient China PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Loewe |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1192 |
Release | 1999-03-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521470308 |
The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of pre-imperial China.
The Cambridge Economic History of China
Title | The Cambridge Economic History of China PDF eBook |
Author | Debin Ma |
Publisher | |
Pages | 867 |
Release | 2022-02-24 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108425534 |
A comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from 1800 to the present from an international team of leading experts.
The Cambridge history of China
Title | The Cambridge history of China PDF eBook |
Author | John K. Fairbank |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 792 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | China |
ISBN | 9780521220293 |
For readers with Chinese, proper names and terms are identified with their characters in the glossary, and full references to Chinese, Japanese and other works are given in the bibliographies. Numerous maps illustrate the text, and there are bibliographical essay decribing the source materials on which each author?s account is based.
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature
Title | The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Kang-i Sun Chang |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 748 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Chinese literature |
ISBN | 9780521855587 |
Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.
The Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World
Title | The Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Chickering |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1065 |
Release | 2012-09-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316175928 |
Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through 'the age of mass', 'the age of machine' and 'the age of management'. They explore how industrialization and nationalism fostered vast armies whilst the emergence of mobile warfare and improved communications systems made possible the 'total warfare' of the two World Wars. With military conflict regionalized after 1945 they show how guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare highlighted the limits of the machine and mass as well as the importance of the media in winning 'hearts and minds'. This is a comprehensive guide to every facet of modern war from strategy and operations to its social, cultural, technological and political contexts and legacies.