Asian empire and British knowledge: China and the networks of British imperial expansion

"British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were criti...

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1. Verfasser: Hillemann, Ulrike 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke [u.a.] Palgrave Macmillan 2009
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
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Zusammenfassung:"British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were critical mediators in the British encounter of China"--Provided by publisher.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:X, 262 S. 23 cm