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Hardcover:
9780824828271 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, March 1, 2005, cover price $54.00
Product Description: For many years, the Ming and Qing dynasties have been grouped as âlate imperial China,â a temporal framework that allows scholars to identify and evaluate indigenous patterns of social, economic, and cultural change initiated in the last century of Ming rule that imparted a particular character to state and society throughout the Qing and into the twentieth century...read more
Hardcover:
9780674013995 | Harvard Univ Council on East Asian, November 30, 2004, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: For many years, the Ming and Qing dynasties have been grouped as âlate imperial China,â a temporal framework that allows scholars to identify and evaluate indigenous patterns of social, economic, and cultural change initiated in the last century of Ming rule that imparted a particular character to state and society throughout the Qing and into the twentieth century.
Hardcover:
9780924304378 | Assn for Asian Studies Inc, October 1, 1998, cover price $40.00
This fascinating book presents eyewitness accounts of a turbulent period in Chinese history: the fall of the Ming dynasty and the conquest of China by the Manchus in the mid-seventeenth century. Lynn A. Struve has translated, introduced, and annotated absorbing testimonies from a wide range of individuals in different social stations -- Chinese and Europeans, missionaries and viceroys, artists and merchants, Ming loyalists and Qing collaborators, maidservants and eunuchs -- all telling stories of hardship and challenge in the midst of cataclysmic change."It is a book that brings history graphically to life". -- Keith Pratt, Asian Affairs"A fascinating view of the dynamics of dynastic change in China". -- Jonathan Porter, History"The book combines skillful translation of a rich variety of primary sources with authoritative commentary and meticulously researched annotation". -- Helen Dunstan, Historian"One of the most engaging works of scholarship to appear in the field for a long time.... An extraordinarily good book destined to be read and enjoyed by a very wide audience beyond the professional one". -- Craig Clunas, Bulletin of SOAS"Throughout the volume, Struve's translations capture the different voices of the cataclysm. Students of Chinese history will find a wealth of information here". -- Choice (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780300056792 | Yale Univ Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This fascinating book presents eyewitness accounts of a turbulent period in Chinese history: the fall of the Ming dynasty and the conquest of China by the Manchus in the mid-seventeenth century.
Paperback:
9780300075533 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $32.00
9780049420939, titled "Age of Lloyd George: The Liberal Party and British Politics, 1880-1929" | Unwin Hyman, June 1, 1971, cover price $14.95 | also contains Age of Lloyd George: The Liberal Party and British Politics, 1880-1929
Hardcover:
9780300030570 | Yale Univ Pr, December 1, 1984, cover price $35.00
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