Armies Of The Nineteenth Century China

Author : Ian Heath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901543025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armies of the Nineteenth Century: China written by Ian Heath and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Heath has assembled 183 line drawings and 39 photographs to illustrate the huge array of costumes and uniforms worn during this period. Coverage includes the Taipeng and Boxer rebellions, Formosa, the Mongols and Gordon's Ever Victorious Army. Ian Heath's accompanying text is one of the most coherent accounts available of Chinese history during this turbulent period. Includes extensive bibliography. All the volumes in this series have a high quality traditional gold-embossed cloth cover and no dust jacket.

Author : Ian Heath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901543063
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burma and Indo-China written by Ian Heath and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian Heath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901543254
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Japan and Korea written by Ian Heath and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a detailed study of the astonishing reinvention of the Empire of Japan during the 19th century as it emerged from 200 years of self-imposed isolation to become a military superpower. As late as the 1850s the country remained technologically and militarily stagnant, but within just 40 years - in what must rank as the most rapid and comprehensive cultural transformation in world history - it had managed not only to absorb and successfully imitate several hundred years of Western technological progress, but had become one of the late Victorian world's top ten military powers. During the same timeframe it also embraced the concept of colonialism, and with its invasion of China in 1894 and virtual occupation of Korea soon after took its first fateful steps along a road that would lead, with horrible inevitability, to head-on collision with the Allies in World War Two. The evolution of its army, arms, uniforms and tactics during the 19th century are all covered, from samurai armor to Western uniforms, and from Katana to Krupps. Korea, by contrast, participated only reluctantly in military modernization, and adopted a limited program of reform only under foreign pressure - especially Japanese, but also American, Russian and Chinese - in the closing decades of the century. Such reforms as the country attempted nevertheless proved too little and too late, and were insufficient to prevent Korea becoming first a puppet state and then a colony of its maritime neighbor. The final part of the book comprises a detailed index for the five volumes of the series published thus far.

Author : Philip Jowett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472814290
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Chinese Armies 1840–1911 written by Philip Jowett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth analysis of the Chinese Armies that fought a series of increasingly fractious wars over nearly a century. Beginning with a run through of the Chinese forces that combated the British and French during the two Opium Wars, this history goes on to trace the forces who were drawn into internal wars and rebellions in the 1850s and 60s, the open warfare in North Vietnam, the string of defeats suffered during the First Sino-Japanese war and the Boxer Rebellion. Providing an unparalleled insight into the dizzying array of troop types and unique uniforms, this is a history of the sometimes-painful modernization of China's military forces during one of her most turbulent periods of history.

Author : CJ Peers
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781846030987
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldiers of the Dragon written by CJ Peers and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turbulent history of China has seen many dynastic struggles over the centuries, ever since the semi-nomadic tribes of ancient China were unified under the first emperor, Cheng. From the Great Wall to the terracotta army at Xian, monuments to China's many wars, and the men who fought them, litter the landscape. This book tells the incredible story of China's armies form the first documented civilization over 3,000 years ago to the outbreak of the first Opium War with Britain in the middle of the 19th century. Written by an acknowledged expert on Chinese armies, this volume offers details of their colourful uniforms and fascinating weaponry with colour and black and white photographs, artwork, maps and diagrams.

Author : Richard Joseph Smith
Publisher : Kto Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercenaries and Mandarins written by Richard Joseph Smith and published by Kto Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanley Spector
Publisher : Seattle, U. of Washington P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Li Hung-chang and the Huai Army written by Stanley Spector and published by Seattle, U. of Washington P. This book was released on 1964 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian Heath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901543018
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Central Asia and the Himalayan kingdoms written by Ian Heath and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the Soviet Union and the coming to power of anti-Western regimes in Iran and Iraq have brought the territories covered in this book back to prominence after decades of relative quiet. During the nineteenth century these territories which are now part of or border on Russia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and China were the main theater of the Great Game, in which British and Russian agents competed for influence over the native princes.

Author : Albert Feuerwerker
Publisher : U of M Center for Chinese Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebellion in Nineteenth-century China written by Albert Feuerwerker and published by U of M Center for Chinese Studies. This book was released on 1975 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of nei-luan--"domestic disorder"--in late Ch'ing China

Author : Benjamin Lai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782003207
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese People’s Liberation Army since 1949 written by Benjamin Lai and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the largest army in the world. China is predicted to be on the brink of overtaking the USA as the world's largest economy, and China's military capabilities and global ambitions are the single greatest long-term pre-occupation of Western governments. The PLA has progressed steadily – if slowly – since its creation in 1949, from a mass army of unsophisticated infantry limited to 'human wave' tactics into a highly sophisticated force with wide capabilities. The most recent reforms (1989 to the present day) have been made possible by massive economic liberalization, and have seen not only the modernization of all the armed forces but the beginnings of global outreach, even including Chinese participation in UN peace-keeping missions to Africa, the Middle East, and Haiti. Featuring rare photographs and specially commissioned color artwork, this study explores the developing structure, organization, equipment, appearance, and character of the Chinese People's Liberation Army from its creation until today.