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

Asian empire and British knowledge : China and the networks of British imperial expansion / Ulrike Hillemann.

"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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Main Author: Hillemann, Ulrike, 1977-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2009.
Series:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Subjects:
East India Company > History.
East India Company
East India Company > London
1800-1899
Geschichte 1763-1840
Imperialism > History > 19th century.
Missionaries > Asia > History.
Merchants > Asia > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
Imperialism
Merchants
Missionaries
International relations
Chinabild
Great Britain > Relations > China.
China > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Relations > Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Relations > India.
India > Relations > Great Britain.
Asia
China
Great Britain
India
Southeast Asia
Großbritannien
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The decline of Mythical China
  • At the China Coast
  • South and Southeast Asian Encounters
  • Asian Networks and the British Isles.

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