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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974588803321

Titolo

Twentieth-century colonialism and China : localities, the everyday and the world / / edited by Bryna Goodman and David S.G. Goodman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-45039-4

1-283-52083-4

9786613833280

0-203-12545-2

1-136-45040-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GoodmanBryna <1955->

GoodmanDavid S. G

Disciplina

325.5109/041

Soggetti

Europeans - China - History - 20th century

Imperialism

China History 20th century Colonization

China Relations Western countries

Western countries Relations China

China History, Local 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography (p. [224]-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; List of maps; List of figures; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction : colonialism and China; Part I: Colonial governance and questions of identity; 1. Good work for China in every possible direction': The Foreign Inspectorate of the Chinese Maritime Customs, 1854-1950; 2. Negotiating the nation: German colonialism and Chinese nationalism in Qingdao, 1897-1914; 3. Things unheard of East or West: colonialism, nationalism, and cultural contamination in early Chinese exchanges

Part III: Late colonialism and local consequences9. Modernism and its discontent in Shanghai: The dubious agency of the semi-colonized in 1929; 10. Equality and the 'Unequal Treaties': Chinese émigrés and



British colonial routes to modernity; 11. Hong Kong and the New Imperialism in East Asia, 1941-66; 12. The hapless imperialist? Portuguese rule in 1960s Macau; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these colonial arrangements across China's landscape defies systematic characterization.This book investigates the complexities and subtleties of colonialism in China during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, the contributors examine the interaction between localities and forces of globalization that shaped the particular colonial experiences characterizing m

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962425803321

Titolo

Hoplites : the classical Greek battle experience / / edited by Victor Davis Hanson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991

ISBN

1-134-96190-1

1-134-96191-X

1-280-10891-6

0-203-42363-1

0-203-30250-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HansonVictor Davis

Disciplina

355/.00938

Soggetti

Military art and science - Greece - History

Greece History, Military

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of major Greek battles; The contributors; Preface; THE IDEOLOGY OF HOPLITE BATTLE, ANCIENT AND MODERN; HOPLITE WEAPONS AND OFFENSIVE ARMS; THE IDENTIFICATION AND RETRIEVAL OF THE HOPLITE BATTLE-DEAD;



HOPLITE TECHNOLOGY IN PHALANX BATTLE; THE KILLING ZONE; THE SALPINX IN GREEK BATTLE; THE GENERAL AS HOPLITE; HOPLITES AND OBSTACLES; SACRIFICE BEFORE BATTLE; HOPLITES AND THE GODS: THE DEDICATION OF CAPTURED ARMS AND ARMOUR; THE FUTURE OF GREEK MILITARY HISTORY; Bibliography; Indices

Sommario/riassunto

Incorporating research found in ancient literary, iconographic, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, this book explores the experiences of the soldiers who conducted battle on the small plains of ancient Greece.The volume, which draws on the accumulated expertise of nine American and British scholars, emphasizes the actual techniques of fighting and practical concerns as the use of commands, music in warfare, the use of ""dog-tags"", and ritual on the battlefield.