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Distant shores : colonial encounters on China's maritime frontier /
"China has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century. Distant Shores challenges this view, showing that the economic expansion of southeastern Chinese rivaled the colonial ambitions...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Histories of economic life.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The great convergence
- Pacifying the seas: imperial campaigns and the early modern maritime frontier, 1566-1684
- Back in the world: the emergence of maritime Chaozhou, 1767-1840
- Brotherhood of the sword: peasant intellectuals and the cult of insurgency, 1775-1866
- Qingxiang: pacification on the coastal frontier, 1869-1891
- Qingxiang: the translocal and transtemporal repercussions of village pacification, 1869-1975
- Narco-capitalism: confronting the British in Shanghai, 1839-1927
- "This diabolical tyranny:" domesticating the British at Chaozhou, 1858-1890s
- Translocal families: women in a male world, 1880s-1929
- Maritime Chaozhou at full moon, 1891-1929
- Territorialism and the state.