A military history of China /
Gaining an understanding of China's long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China's ascent to global power. Many of China's imperial dynasties were established as the result of battle, from the chariot warfare of ancient times to the battles of the Guomindang (KMT)...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2012.
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Edición: | Updated edition. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction / Robert Higham and David A. Graff
- 2. Continuity and change / Edward L. Dreyer
- 3. State making and state breaking / David A. Graff
- 4. The northern frontier / David Wright
- 5. Water forces and naval operations / Peter Lorge
- 6. Military writings / Ralph D. Sawyer
- 7. The Qing empire / Paul Lococo Jr.
- 8. The Taiping rebellion : a military assessment of revolution and counterrevolution / Maochun Yu
- 9. Beyond the marble boat : the transformation of the Chinese military, 1850-1911 / Richard S. Horowitz
- 10. Warlordism in early republican China / Edward A. McCord
- 11. The national army from Whampoa to 1949 / Chang Jui-te
- 12. The Sino-Japanese conflict, 1931-1945 / Stephen R. MacKinnon
- 13. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" : Mao and the Red Army / William Wei
- 14. Always faithful : the PLA from 1949 to 1989 / Dennis J. Blasko
- 15. China's foreign conflicts since 1949 / Larry M. Wortzel
- 16. Recent developments in the Chinese military / June Teufel Dreyer.