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From frontier policy to foreign policy : the question of India and the transformation of geopolitics in Qing China /

Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single 'foreign' policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized 'fronti...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mosca, Matthew W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • A wealth of Indias : India in Qing geographic practice, 1644-1755
  • The conquest of Xinjiang and the emergence of "Hindustan," 1756-1790
  • Mapping India : geographic agnosticism in a cartographic context
  • Discovering the "Pileng" : British India seen from Tibet, 1789-1800
  • British India and Qing strategic thought in the early nineteenth century
  • The discovery of British India on the Chinese coast, 1800-1837
  • The Opium War and the British Empire
  • Emergence of a foreign policy : Wei Yuan and the reinterpretation of India in Qing strategic thought.