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China marches west : the Qing conquest of Central Eurasia /
From about 1600 to 1800, the Qing empire of China expanded to unprecedented size. Through astute diplomacy, economic investment, and a series of ambitious military campaigns into the heart of Central Eurasia, the Manchu rulers defeated the Zunghar Mongols, and brought all of modern Xinjiang and Mong...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. The formation of the central Eurasian states. Environments, state building, and national identity
- The Ming, Muscovy, and Siberia, 1400-1600
- Central Eurasian interactions and the rise of the Manchus, 1600-1670
- Part 2. Contending for power. Manchus, Mongols, and Russians in conflict, 1670-1690
- Eating snow : the end of Galdan, 1690-1697
- Imperial overreach and Zunghar survival, 1700-1731
- The final blows, 1734-1771
- Part 3. The economic base of empire. Cannons on camelback : ecological structures and economic conjunctures
- Land settlement and military colonies
- Harvests and relief
- Currency and commerce
- Part 4. Fixing frontiers. Moving through the land
- Marking time : writing imperial history
- Part 5. Legacies and implications. Writing the national history of conquest
- State building in Europe and Asia
- Frontier expansion in the rise and fall of the Qing
- Appendixes : A. Rulers and reigns
- B. The Yongzheng emperor reels from the news of the disaster, 1731
- C. Haggling at the border
- D. Gansu harvests and yields
- E. Climate and harvests in the northwest.