Twilight of the British Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twilight of the British Empire write by Chikara Hashimoto. This book was released on 2018-01-23. Twilight of the British Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinema
Imperial Twilight
Imperial Twilight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imperial Twilight write by Stephen R. Platt. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Imperial Twilight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
The Last Imperialist
The Last Imperialist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Imperialist write by Bruce Gilley. This book was released on 2021-09-21. The Last Imperialist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns' Epic Defense of the British Empires studies Sir Alan Burns' career and his arguments in defense of European colonialism. Bruce Gilley describes Burns' intellectual and policy battles with opponents of colonialism and his efforts to slow the decolonization process"--
The Twilight Years
The Twilight Years - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Twilight Years write by Richard Overy. This book was released on 2010-11-30. The Twilight Years available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern England By the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists?among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells?sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud?s unconscious, was a creeping fear that the West was staring down the end of civilization. In their home country of Britain, many of these fears were unfounded. The country had not suffered from economic collapse, occupation, civil war, or any of the ideological conflicts of inter-war Europe. Nevertheless, the modern era?s promise of progress was overshadowed by a looming sense of decay and death that would deeply influence creative production and public argument between the wars. In The Twilight Years, award-winning historian Richard Overy examines the paradox of this period and argues that the coming of World War II was almost welcomed by Britain?s leading thinkers, who saw it as an extraordinary test for the survival of civilization? and a way of resolving their contradictory fears and hopes about the future.
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom write by Stephen R. Platt. This book was released on 2012. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles--a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China. The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China's future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China's modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure. This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.
