The Lion And Dragon: Britain China: A History Of Conflict Lawrence James Weidenfeld Nicolson Αγγλικά Βιβλία World

Napoleon Warned \ Let China Sleep When She Wakes Will Shake The World\ Lawrence James\ S Magisterial History Analyses Relationship Between Britain And Beginning Of Opium Wars In 1839 Transfer Power Hong Kong 1997 Lion Dragon Reveals Part That Played Awakening Then Covers Relations Two Countries During Period An Aroused Did Indeed World James Also Follows Parallel Trajectories Four Competitive Empires - British Chinese Russian Japanese Nineteenth Twentieth Centuries Fortunes A Fifth Imperial United States Successive Governments Saw As Source Wealth Which Needed To Be Protected Local Objections Were Seen Off By Force (The Opium\ 1839-42 1856-7 1859-60) Whose Results Proved Qing Emperors Could Not Protect Their Country Indian Troops Deployed Each Campaign Manned Britain\ Small Garrisons Shanghai Other Treaty Ports Yet Never Sought Make Into Another India Rather It Allowed Officials Govern So Long They Docile Amenable Needs Paramount Internal Stability Fiscal Responsibility Lubricants Trade Unified Nation With Economic Military Muscle Aware Its Distant Past One Great Nations Has Been Intent On Reversing Her Recent Vividly Chronicles Time This Huge Nation\ Divisions Encouraged Foreigners Treat Treasure-House Plundered At Warning From Explains Why China\ Present Rulers Brook Neither Dissent Nor Popular Unrest Σελίδες: 432 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1029 Διαστάσεις: 12 8X12 8Cm