Author: Major E. W. M. NoriePublisher:
ISBN: 9781783311156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Official Account of the Military Operations in China 1900-1901
Author: Major E. W. M. NoriePublisher:
ISBN: 9781783311156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Official Account of the Military Operations in China, 1900-1901
Author: Great Britain. War Office. Intelligence DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Official Account of the Military Operations in China 1900-1901
Author: E. W. M. NoriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Commences with the rise of the Boxer Secret society, and the outbreak of hostilities against foreigners, extends to military operations to free the Foreign Legations in Peking. Covers the conclusion of peace and the withdrawal of the allied forces from China. Contains a selection of maps.
Official Account of the Military Operations in China 1900-01
Author: Great Britain. War OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
The French in the Boxer Rebellion 1900-1901
Author: Emile Jean Francois Regis VoyronPublisher:
ISBN: 9781585455102
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This is an incredibly detailed account of the French operations in China during the Boxer Rebellion 1900-1901. It provides every ship involved in the movement of troops to China and back; it goes beyond just the freeing of the international legations in Peking; covers the politics; provides complete French order of battle.
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China
Author: David J. SilbeyPublisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1429942576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers. The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency in the South Pacific while the upstart imperialist Japan begins to make clear to neighboring Russia its territorial ambition. In China, a perennial pawn in the Great Game, a mysterious group of superstitious peasants is launching attacks on the Western powers they fear are corrupting their country. These ordinary Chinese—called Boxers by the West because of their martial arts showmanship—rise up seemingly out of nowhere. Foreshadowing the insurgencies of our recent past, they lack a centralized leadership and instead tap into latent nationalism and deep economic frustration to build their army. Many scholars brush off the Boxer Rebellion as an ill-conceived and easily defeated revolt, but in The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, the military historian David J. Silbey shows just how close the Boxers came to beating back the combined might of the imperial powers. Drawing on the diaries and letters of allied soldiers and diplomats, he paints a vivid portrait of the war. Although their cause ended just as quickly as it began, the Boxers would inspire Chinese nationalists—including a young Mao Zedong—for decades to come.
Empire, Ideology, Mass Violence: The Long 20th Century in Comparative Perspective
Author: Tobias HofPublisher: Herbert Utz Verlag
ISBN: 3831643318
Category : Genocide
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Despite the vast literature on genocide and mass violence during the 19th and 20th century, one question still haunts historians and the wider public alike: Why do ‘ordinary men’ use extreme violence against fellow human beings? “Empire, Ideology, Violence: The Long 20th Century” in Comparative Perspective offers innovative methods and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of extreme violence in the long 20th century. By looking at case studies from different regions and time periods the contributors shed more light on the social, political and economic contexts in which humans are inclined to use extreme forms of violence. Topics in the volume include case studies from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Ottoman Empire and the Nazi Third Reich.
The Life of Lieut.-General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson ...
Author: Duncan Stewart MacdiarmidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Indian Army on the Western Front South Asia Edition
Author: George Morton-JackPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107117658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Recasts the role of the Indian Army on the Western Front, questioning why its performance was traditionally deemed a failure.
The Imperial Security State
Author: James Louis HeviaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521896088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
An important new study of the information systems of the British empire and of how knowledge was used to maintain empire.