China and the West in the 19th Century: The History of the Qing Dynasty’s Contacts and Conflicts with the Europeans and Americans

Ottomans and Europeans: Contacts and Conflicts 9781463225841

This collection of articles by Virginia Aksan explores the contacts and conflicts between Ottomans and Europeans through

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The California Trail: The History and Legacy of the 19th Century Routes that Led Americans to the Golden State

*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents The Lewis and Clark Exped

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Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China 9780824874018

Bringing the World Home sheds new light on China’s vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919—a crucial period that mar

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The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China 9781503626461

This book reveals and interprets the rich diversity of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Chinese approaches to their own pas

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The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History 9781400874446

The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the tec

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The Ottoman-Russian Wars of the 19th Century: The History of the Conflicts Between Russia and the Ottoman Empire Leading Up to World War I 1634274122

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The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military Under the Qing Dynasty 9780755624010, 9781845111595

What particularly distinguished the Qing from other ruling houses in China's imperial period? In this pathbreaking

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The Boxer Rebellion: The History and Legacy of the Anti-Imperialist Uprising in China at the End of the 19th Century

*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents The 19th century saw the

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Chechnya and Dagestan: The History of the North Caucasus Republics and Their Conflicts with Russia 3279576139

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Governance and Crisis in the State in Africa : The Context and Dynamics of the Conflicts in West Africa 9781906704100

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