The Qing formation in world-historical time
By: edited by Lynn A. Struve.
Contributors: Struve, Lynn A., 1944-
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 234.
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: China -- History -- 1644-1795 -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "The chapters in this volume arose from "The Qing  Formation in World and Chinese Time" conference, which was held on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University in June 1999."--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lynn A. Struve; title: Part I: sitings in Eurasian time; title: The Qing empire in Eurasian time and space: lessons from the Galdan campaigns / Peter C. Perdue; title: The Qing formation, the Mongol legacy, and the "end of history" in early modern central Eurasia / James A. Millward; title: Did guns matter? firearms and the Qing formation / Nicola Di Cosmo; title: Contingent connections: Fujian, the empire, and the early modern world / John  E. Wills,  Jr.; title: Part II: Was the early Qing "early modern?"; title: The Qing formation and the early modern period / Evelyn S. Rawski; title: Neither late imperial nor early modern: efflorescences and the Qing formation in world history / Jack A. Goldstone; title: The diachronics of early Qing visual  and material culture / Jonathan Hay; title: Chimerical early  modernity: the case of "conquest generation" memoirs /  Lynn A. Struve.