Imperial Twilight [electronic resource] : Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, 2018
Platt, Stephen R.2018
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA Financial Times Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year________________________________________'Entertaining and well-paced... Platt's compelling book is a sobering read that should focus the minds of those who like to talk of the achievements of the Victorian age without thinking about how those were achieved, or how they were funded.' Peter Frankopan, Spectator________________________________________In 1839 Britain embarked on the first of its wars with China, sealing the fate of the most prosperous and powerful empire in Asia, if not the world. Motivated by drug profiteering and free-trade interests, the Opium War helped shaped the China we know today, sparking the eventual fall of the Qing dynasty and the rise of nationalism and communism in the twentieth century.Imperial Twilight is a riveting and revealing account of the end of China's Golden Age and the origins of one of the most unjust wars in history.
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Author:
Platt, Stephen R., authorCloud
Imprint:
[S.l.] : Atlantic Books, 2018.
Collation:
1 online resource560 p.
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Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Atlantic Books 2018 Available via World Wide Web.
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Format: Adobe EPUBRequires: cloudLibrary (file size: 17.5 MB)
ISBN:
9781786494887
Language:
English
Related title:
Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age
BRN:
3323084
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