BOOKS by Peter C Perdue

China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia more books like this

by Peter C Perdue

From about 1600 to 1800, the Qing empire of China expanded to unprecedented size. Through astute diplomacy, economic investment, and a series of ambitious military campaigns into the heart of Central Eurasia, the Manchu rulers defeated the Zunghar Mongols, and brought all of modern Xinjiang and Mongolia under their control.

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Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan more books like this

by Peter C Perdue

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Imperial Formations more books like this

by Ann Laura Stoler (Editor), Carole McGranahan (Editor), Peter C Perdue (Editor)

Is there only one model for empire, based on European empires? How might the critique of European empires serve to understand imperial forms elsewhere? This collection moves beyond the Euro-centric slant of colonial studies to compare European and non-European empires with socialist states and empire beyond colonialism.

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