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 critical me...

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Main Author: Hillemann, Ulrike
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2009, 2009
Series:Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:X, 262 p online resource
ISBN:9780230246751