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Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

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 | #750401 in Books |  Wu Shellen |  2015-04-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.80 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 280 pages

 | Empires of Coal Fueling China s Entry Into the Modern World Order 1860 1920

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|| |"This book narrates how, from the 1860s to the 1910s, China entered into a modern, industrializing world driven by fossil fuels. The topic could not carry greater contemporary relevance for China and the world, and only a few other historians have written on i

From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing state and local elites battled for control over the rights to these valuable mineral deposits. As coal went from a useful commodity to the essential fuel of industrializ...

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