Robert Bickers is the author of the highly-acclaimed Empire Made Me and The Scramble for China. He has written extensively on Chinese history and is a Professor of History at the University of Bristol.
16 Ebooks von Robert Bickers
Robert Bickers & R. G. Tiedemann: Boxers, China, and the World
In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multidisciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer …
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€174.68
Robert Bickers & Isabella Jackson: Treaty Ports in Modern China
This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers con …
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€70.61
Robert Bickers & Isabella Jackson: Treaty Ports in Modern China
This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers con …
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€70.62
Robert Bickers & Jonathan Howlett: Britain and China, 1840-1970
This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such …
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€63.52
Robert Bickers & Jonathan Howlett: Britain and China, 1840-1970
This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such …
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€63.55
Robert Bickers: Empire Made Me
‚This is a biography of a nobody that offers a window into an otherwise closed world. It is a life which manages to touch us all…‘ Empire Made Me Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one …
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€11.99
Robert Bickers: Scramble for China
In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers – but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weake …
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€12.99
Robert Bickers: Out of China
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEThe extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today.Even at the high noon of Europe’s empires China managed to be …
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€10.99
Robert Bickers: China Bound
From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies. Jo …
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€34.73
Robert Bickers: Britain in China
This is a study of Britain’s presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using arch …
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€27.99
Robert Bickers & Christian Henriot: New frontiers
In the new world order mapped out by Japanese and Western imperialism in East Asia after the mid-nineteenth century opium wars, communities of merchants and settlers took root in China and Korea. New …
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€28.99
Robert Bickers: Getting Stuck in For Shanghai
After 1914, between tiffin and a day at the race track, the British in Shanghai enjoyed a life far removed from the horrors of the Great War. Shanghai’s status as a treaty port – with its foreign con …
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€10.21
E. W. Peters: Shanghai Policeman
Shanghai in the 1930s was one of the world’s most dangerous cities, with kidnappings and murders daily occurrences. British police officer E.W. Peters of the Shanghai Municipal Police takes us down t …
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€7.49
David Killingray & Margarette Lincoln: Maritime Empires
Britain’s empire was sustained by shipping. These studies are concerned with a range of enterprises, both home and colonial, in which shipping was involved, relating to goods, people, ideas. Britain‘ …
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€28.99
Bickers Robert Bickers: Out of China
Nationalism matters in China, and what matters in China matters to everyone. China’s new nationalism, Robert Bickers shows, is rooted not in its present power but in shameful memories of its former w …
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€44.66
Robert Bickers: China Bound
From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies. Jo …
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Englisch
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€34.73
