Empires of Coal : Fueling China's Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920 /

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From 1868-1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wu, Shellen Xiao (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Temas:
Coal mines and mining > China > History > 19th century.
Coal mines and mining > China > History > 20th century.
Geology, Economic > China > History > 19th century.
Geology, Economic > China > History > 20th century.
Mines and mineral resources > China > History > 19th century.
Mines and mineral resources > China > History > 20th century.
Hanyeping.
Pingxiang.
Self-Strengthening Movement.
Zhang Zhidong.
engineers.
geology.
industrialization.
mining.
science.
translation.
HISTORY / Asia / China.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Fueling Industrialization in the Age of Coal
  • 2. Ferdinand von Richthofen and the Geology of Empire
  • 3. Lost and Found in Translation: Geology, Mining, and the Search for Wealth and Power
  • 4. Engineers as the Agents of Science and Empire, 1886-1914
  • 5. Nations, Empires, and Mining Rights, 1895-1911
  • 6. Geology in the Age of Imperialism, 1890-1923
  • 7. Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Series list

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