Dabry de Thiersant: and the Opening of China by the French - Softcover

Israeli, Raphael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3844315632 ISBN 13: 9783844315639

Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011

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Reseña del editor:

This volume, based on the French Quai D'Orsay's archives, depicts the saga of the post-Napoleonic France's desperate efforts to struggle for a strong presense in the Far East following the Opium War (1839-42), in competition with the much superiour British hegemony in the China Seas. The story is constructed around the outstanding and colourful personality of Dabry de Thiersant who served as the French Consul in Hankow during the 1870's. His efforts comprised diplomatic and military as well as commercial and missionary activities. While he launched his career as a shining meteor, he ended it in disgrace as a burnt out comet.

Biografía del autor:

Born in Fes, Morocco, Graduate of Hebrew University in History and Arabic, PhD in Chinese and Islamic History from Univ. of California, Berkeley in 1974. Professor of Islamic and Chinese History at Hebrew University. World wide lecturer, in Modern Middle Eastern, Islamic and Chinese subjects, author of 29 books and over 100 scholarly articles.

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• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 3844315632
• ISBN 13: 9783844315639
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344