Skip to main content
Thumbnail for China : the stealth empire

China : the stealth empire

Burman, Edward2008
Books, Manuscripts

Find it!
Remove China : the stealth empire from your current listSave China : the stealth empire to your current list

Total copies: 1

Available: 1

Availability by location
Place reservation for China : the stealth empire
This book asks why it is that China, despite its size and once advanced culture and technology, did not become a world power centuries ago. Burman traces the answer through an innate Chinese sense of superiority which made foreign conquest and trade an irrelevance.
Main title:
China : the stealth empire / Edward Burman.
Author:
Burman, Edward
Imprint:
Stroud : History, 2008.
Collation:
320 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-304) and index.
ISBN:
9780750946834 (hbk)0750946830 (hbk)
Dewey class:
951
Language:
English
Subject:
China -- HistoryChina -- Economic conditionsChina -- Politics and governmentChina -- Foreign relationsChina -- Forecasting
BRN:
310826
Bookmark link:
https://liveborders.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=310826

Find it!
Remove China : the stealth empire from your current listSave China : the stealth empire to your current list

Total copies: 1

Available: 1

Availability by location
Place reservation for China : the stealth empire
View my active saved list
0 items in my active saved list