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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
A Financial Times Book of the Year
A Sunday Times Book of the Year
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''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
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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.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
A Financial Times Book of the Year
A 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.

Über den Autor
Stephen R. Platt
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XXVIII
532 S.
ISBN-13: 9781786494870
ISBN-10: 1786494876
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Platt, Stephen R.
Auflage: Main
Hersteller: Atlantic Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 198 x 128 x 45 mm
Von/Mit: Stephen R. Platt
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.06.2019
Gewicht: 0,55 kg
Artikel-ID: 114954745

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