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      Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai

      Robert A. Bickers

      This riveting biography of a nobody offers a rare view of empire from the bottom up and a glimpse of the making of modern China. Robert Bickers mines the letters…

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      Getting Stuck in For Shanghai: Putting the Kibosh on the Kaiser from theBund: The British at Shanghai and the Great War: Penguin Specials

      Robert Bickers

      After 1914, between tiffin and a day at the race track, the British in Shanghai enjoyed a life far removed from the horrors of the Great War. Shanghai’s status as…

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      Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination

      Robert Bickers

      China’s new nationalism is rooted not in its present power but in shameful memories of its former weaknesses. Invaded, humiliated, and looted by foreign powers in the past, China looks…

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      The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914

      Robert Bickers

      In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the…

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      Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai

      Robert Bickers

      Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world’s most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities. Threatened from within by communist workers and governed by desperate…

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      Settlers and Expatriates: Britons over the Seas

      Explores the experience of Britons in the colonial world outside the Dominions through a series of case studies of different communities spread across the world of British power

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      Settlers and Expatriates: Britons over the Seas

      Explores the experience of Britons in the colonial world outside the Dominions through a series of case studies of different communities spread across the world of British power

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      Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination

      Robert Bickers

      China’s new nationalism is rooted not in its present power but in shameful memories of its former weaknesses. Invaded, humiliated, and looted by foreign powers in the past, China looks…

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      Shanghai Policeman: With a New Foreword by Robert Bickers

      E W Peters

      Shanghai in the 1930s was one of the world's most dangerous cities, with kidnappings and murders daily occurrences. British police officer E.W. Peters of the Shanghai Municipal Police takes us…

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      New Frontiers: Imperialism’s New Communities in East Asia, 1842-1953

      Examines European, American and Japanese communities in China and Korea, and challenges received notions of agency and collaboration by also looking at the roles in China of British and Japanese…

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      Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law, Land and Power

      This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports - the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries…

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      Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law, Land and Power

      This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports - the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries…

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      Britain and China, 1840-1970: Empire, Finance and War

      This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues…

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      Britain and China, 1840-1970: Empire, Finance and War

      This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues…

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      Missionary Encounters

      Robert A. Bickers,Rosemary Seton

      Explores the value of missionary archives not only to the study of the processes of Christian envangelism and Western imperialism in the 19th and early-20th centuries, but also in documenting…

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      Missionary Encounters

      Robert A. Bickers,Rosemary Seton

      First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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      Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American Democracy

      Robert M. Stein (Rice University, Houston),Kenneth N. Bickers (Indiana University)

      Stein and Bickers explore the policy subsystems that blanket the American political landscape employing a new data base detailing federal outlays to Congressional districts for each federal program. They examine…

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      Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American Democracy

      Robert M. Stein (Rice University, Houston),Kenneth N. Bickers (Indiana University)

      Stein and Bickers explore the policy subsystems that blanket the American political landscape employing a new data base detailing federal outlays to Congressional districts for each federal program. They examine…

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      Federal Domestic Outlays, 1983-90: A Data Book: A Data Book

      James P McGough,Kenneth N. Bickers,Robert M. Stein

      First Published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

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      Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American Democracy

      Robert M. Stein (Rice University, Houston),Kenneth N. Bickers (Indiana University)

      Stein and Bickers explore the policy subsystems that blanket the American political landscape employing a database detailing federal outlays to Congressional districts for each federal program. They examine four myths…

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