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Imperial Twilight

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Imperial Twilight

By Stephen R. (Author) Platt

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About the book

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEFinancial Times' best history books of the yearSunday Times' best history books of the yearWhen Britain launched its first war on China in 1839, pushed into hostilities by profiteering drug merchants and free-trade interests, it sealed the fate of what had long been seen as the most prosperous and powerful empire in Asia, if not the world. Corruption, popular unrest and dwindling finances had weakened China far more than was commonly understood, and ...Show more

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9781786494870

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Atlantic Books

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2019

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