
Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China
A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers.
The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency in the South Pacific while the upsta...
A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers.
The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency in the South Pacific while the upsta...