Business, Water, and the Global City: Germany, Europe, and China, 1820-1950

The dissertation examines the evolving role of Germans under the auspices of European imperialism in modern China's hydraulic management and economic globalization. In the early nineteenth-century, Germans were on the margins of both the Chinese and British Empires, connecting former frontier r...

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Main Author: Ye, Shirley
Other Authors: Blackbourn, David Gordon
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2013
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11176
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11181171