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China marches west : the Qing conquest of Central Eurasia / Peter C. Perdue.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perdue, Peter C., 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mongols--History.
- Mongols.
- History.
- China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
- China.
- Russia--History--1613-1917.
- Russia.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 725 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Qing conquest of Central Eurasia
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Perdue illuminates how China came to rule Central Eurasia and how it justifies that control, what holds the Chinese nation together, and how its relations with the Islamic world and Mongolia developed. He offers valuable comparisons to other colonial empires and discusses the legacy left by China's frontier expansion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [593]-705) and index.
- ISBN:
- 067401684X
- OCLC:
- 56567189
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