Available for download free The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China. In China, a perennial pawn in the Great Game, a mysterious group of superstitious peasants is launching attacks on the Western powers they A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powersThe year is 1900, and Western empires are locked A succinct revisiting of the turn-of-the-century uprising that pitted Chinese recalcitrance against "imperial buccaneering. David J. Silbey. The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China. New York Hill and Wang, 2012. 304 pp. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN Silbey's concise, lively account of an early experiment in multilateral intervention analyzes the imperialist motivations that led a mixed army of The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China: A History Paperback April 9, 2013. The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China. The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy.
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