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(0)Stephen R Platt
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English
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This narrative history of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion (which cost some twenty million lives) brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and sometimes gruesome battles -- a riveting, both sweeping and intimate portrait of the largest civil war in history.
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Physical Desc
xxviii, 556 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how nineteenth-century British efforts to open China to trade set in motion the fall of the Qing dynasty and started a war that allowed for the rise of nationalism and communism in the twentieth century.