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Robert Bickers

Robert Bickers is Professor of History and Director of the 'Historical Photographs of China' project at the University of Bristol. ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 533 ratings · 69 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination 3.82 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 3.50 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2011 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire Made Me 3.93 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816 – 1980 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Getting Stuck in For Shanghai: Putting the Kibosh on the Kaiser from the Bund: The British at Shanghai and the Great War: Penguin Special 3.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism, 1900-49 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boxers, China, and the World by Robert Bickers (Editor), R.G. Tiedemann (Editor), C.A. Bayly (Contributor) 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Settlers and Expatriates: Britons over the Seas (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series) 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	May Days in Hong Kong: Riot and Emergency in 1967 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law, Land and Power by Robert Bickers (Editor), Isabella Jackson (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Out of Africa by Karen Blixen

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The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays by Chinua Achebe

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On Another Man's Wound by Ernie O'Malley

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The Gentleman In The Parlour by W. Somerset Maugham

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Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert A. Bickers

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The Mottled Lizard by Elspeth Huxley

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The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories by Beryl Markham

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Shadows On The Grass by Karen Blixen

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Memoirs of a Political Officer's Wife: In Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan by Margaret D. Williamson

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