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Asian empire and British knowledge : China and the networks of British imperial expansion /
"British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were criti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were critical mediators in the British encounter of China"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 262 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-253) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230246751 0230246753 128267241X 9781282672413 |