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Liberal Barbarism The European Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China /

In Liberal Barbarism, Erik Ringmar sets out to explain the 1860 destruction of Yuanmingyuan - the Chinese imperial palace north-west of Beijing - at the hands of British and French armies. Yuanmingyuan was the emperor's own theme-park, a perfect world, a vision of paradise, which housed one of...

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Main Author: Ringmar, E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Cultural Sociology
Subjects:
Culture.
Asia—History.
Political sociology.
International relations.
Imperialism.
Political science.
Sociology of Culture.
Asian History.
Political Sociology.
International Relations.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Political Science.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137031600

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137031600

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