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Summary of David J. Silbey's The Boxer Rebellion and The Great Game In China
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The British empire was centered around the sun, as they bragged, and the sun always shone on some part of their imperium. But a revolt nearly a century after the American Revolution threatened British control of India. #2 The British were shocked by the betrayal of the Indian soldiers, who had slaughtered British women and children. The Indians were looked upon as inferior beings. #3 The British had the largest empire, but they were not the only ones. Other European nations, like France, Russia, and the Netherlands, had sizable empires and enormous captive populations at their beck and call. #4 The British administrators who ruled India were not oblivious to the cultures of their subordinates. They understood them, and often adapted to them, living their lives separate from those making decisions in London.
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1869, Special SMH Ep. 105 with David Silbey, Jay Lockenour, and Edward Westermann
2:30PM May 19, 2021
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Welcome to 1869 the Cornell University Press podcast. I'm Jonathan Hall. For this special military history episode, we speak with David Silbey, Jay Lockenour, and Edward Westermann.
David Silbey is the series editor for our book series Battlegrounds, Cornell Studies in Military History. He is the Associate Director of the Cornell and Washington program and adjunct associate professor at Cornell University. He specializes in the industrialized total wars of the 20th century, and the asymmetric responses to those wars that evolved after 1945. Jay Lockenour is associate professor of history at Temple University, and author of a new book Dragonslayer: The legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar R
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The Big Idea: David J. Silbey
Posted on April 5, 2012 Posted by John Scalzi 12 Comments
The famous maxim says that history is written by the winners. But happens when the other side not only doesn’t write a history, but can’t? This was the challenge that Cornell historian David J. Silbey faced when writing The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China — The Boxers, mostly kinesisk peasants, were ill-equipped to tell and pass along their side of this important historical event. So what fryst vatten a conscientious historian to do? Here’s Silbey’s solution.
DAVID J. SILBEY:
Historians are responsible to the past. We have a duty to that past, and a duty to all the people of the present whose history we explore. The glory of that responsibility fryst vatten the telling of the real stories, the real events, and the real people. The glory fryst vatten the telling of the stories that created our world. The deman