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Empires of Coal : Fueling China's Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University SeriesPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804794732
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Empires of CoalDDC classification:
  • 338.2/724095109034
LOC classification:
  • TN809.C47
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Fueling Industrialization in the Age of Coal -- Chapter 2: Ferdinand von Richthofen and the Geology of Empire -- Chapter 3: Lost and Found in Translation -- Chapter 4: Engineers as the Agents of Science and Empire, 1886-1914 -- Chapter 5: Nations, Empires, and Mining Rights, 1895-1911 -- Chapter 6: Geology in the Age of Imperialism, 1890-1923 -- Chapter 7: Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Series List.
Summary: Underground Empires examines how Chinese views of strategic mineral resources developed in the last decades of the Qing dynasty.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Fueling Industrialization in the Age of Coal -- Chapter 2: Ferdinand von Richthofen and the Geology of Empire -- Chapter 3: Lost and Found in Translation -- Chapter 4: Engineers as the Agents of Science and Empire, 1886-1914 -- Chapter 5: Nations, Empires, and Mining Rights, 1895-1911 -- Chapter 6: Geology in the Age of Imperialism, 1890-1923 -- Chapter 7: Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Series List.

Underground Empires examines how Chinese views of strategic mineral resources developed in the last decades of the Qing dynasty.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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