Empire Made Me

Empire Made Me
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : 0231131321
ISBN-13 : 9780231131322
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Book Synopsis Empire Made Me by : Robert A. Bickers

Download or read book Empire Made Me written by Robert A. Bickers and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting "biography of a nobody" offers a rare view of empire from the bottom up and a glimpse of the making of modern China. Robert Bickers mines the letters of Richard Tinkler along with archival files to create a fascinating and much-needed narrative of everyday life in the colonial world and an unvarnished portrait of the colonial experience that will permanently affect our view of it.


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