Lost colony : the untold story of China's first great victory over the West /
During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War--Europe's first war with China--the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An execution
- Destinies entwined
- Pirate war
- War is the art of deception
- The wrath of heaven
- The samurai
- The general
- The sea king
- Heaven has not tired of chaos on earth
- An extreme and terrifying storm
- A foggy morning
- Koxinga's victories
- Parleys and capitulations
- The castle
- An assault
- A summer of misery
- Relief from the sea
- The fleet
- A foolish attack
- The defectors
- Koxinga closes in
- The accidental embassy
- Acrimony
- The last battle
- Surrender
- A mad death.