Biography and the Making of Transnational Imperialism: Karl Gützlaff on the China Coast, 1831–1851.
This essay challenges the 'methodological territorialism' and 'methodological nationalism' prevalent in recent studies of imperial biographies, examining the role of the German Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (1801–1851) in establishing a transnational form of free-trade imperialism in China. A nativ...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 415 - 446 |
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