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Author Platt, Stephen R.

Title Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom : China, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping Civil War / by Stephen R. Platt.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  951.034 PLATT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  951.034 P69    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  951.034 PLATT    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  951.034 PLA    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  951.034 P69A    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  951.034 PLATT    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xviii, 470 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-447) and index.
Contents Dramatis Personae -- Chronology of Major Events -- Prologue: Heaven's Children -- pt. 1. Twilight -- The Preacher's Assistant -- Neutrality -- The Shield King -- Soundings -- An Appointment in the North -- pt. 2. Order Rising -- The Reluctant General -- The Force of Doctrine -- Perils of Civilization -- Endurance -- Heaven and Earth -- Crossings -- pt. 3. The Great Peace -- The Point of No Return -- Vampires -- Flowering Rain -- Blood and Honor -- Crossing the Mountain -- Epilogue.
Summary This narrative history of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion (which cost some twenty million lives) brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and sometimes gruesome battles--a riveting, both sweeping and intimate portrait of the largest civil war in history.
Subject China -- History -- Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864.
China -- Relations -- Western countries.
Western countries -- Relations -- China.
China -- History -- Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864 -- Participation, Foreign.
Visitors, Foreign -- China -- History -- 19th century.
Europeans -- China -- History -- 19th century.
Americans -- China -- History -- 19th century.
Manchus -- History -- 19th century.
Ethnic conflict -- China -- History -- 19th century.
China -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 9780307271730: $30.00
0307271730
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