Lawrence James
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The Lion and the Dragon
Britain and China: A History of Conflict
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997. THE LION AND THE DRAGON reveals the part that Britain played in ...
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The Lion and the Dragon
Britain and China: A History of Conflict
- Orion, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1018-6
EAN 9781474610186
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997. THE LION AND THE DRAGON reveals the part that Britain played in ...
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- Phoenix, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-481-7
EAN 9781780224817
Lawrence James, has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical context, but solely focusing on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young army officer in the late 19th century, Churchill's first experience of the Empire was serving in conflicts in India, South Africa and the Sudan. ...
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Raj
The Making and Unmaking of British India
- Griffin, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-312-26382-9
EAN 9780312263829
In less that one hundred years, the British made themselves the masters of India. They ruled for another hundred, leaving behind the independent nations of India and Pakistan when they finally withdrew in 1947. Both nations would owe much to the British Raj: under its rule, Indians learned to see themselves as Indians; its benefits ...
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Raj
The Making and Unmaking of British India
- Little&Brown, 1998
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11012-7
EAN 9780349110127
This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent states of India and Pakistan. British rule taught Indians to see themselves ...
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Great Britain's geopolitical role has undergone many changes over the last four centuries. Once a maritime superpower and ruler of half the world, Britain now occupies an isolated position as an economically fragile island often at odds with her European neighbors.Lawrence James has written a comprehensive, perceptive, and insighful history of the British Empire. Spanning ...
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