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Empires of coal : fueling China's entry into the modern world order, 1860-1920 /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wu, Shellen Xiao, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo