How Taiwan Became Chinese - Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century

Zusammenfassung Tells how Europeans managed to establish colonies throughout the globe not because of technological superiority but because their states sponsored overseas colonialism whereas Asian states did not. This book shows how European trade! protection! and occupation played a central role in Taiwan's colonization and incorporation by the Chinese empire.

Product details

• Authors: Tonio Andrade, Tonio (Emory University) Andrade
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2008
• EAN: 9780231128551
• ISBN: 978-0-231-12855-1
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Gutenberg-e; Gutenberg-E
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous