Related Books
Language: en
Pages: 541
Pages: 541
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-09 - Publisher: Prometheus Books
This engrossing popular history makes many intriguing connections between precious metals like gold and silver as sources of economic wealth and the rise of emp
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-01 - Publisher: Sydney University Press
In the 18th and 19th centuries, relations between China and the West were defined by the Qing dynasty’s strict restrictions on foreign access and by the West�
Language: en
Pages: 446
Pages: 446
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-17 - Publisher: BRILL
Tribute and Profit illuminates the conduct and maintenance of maritime trade under Siam’s tributary relationship with imperial China, and scrutinizes the mome
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal nei
Language: en
Pages: 404
Pages: 404
Type: BOOK - Published: 1975 - Publisher: