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Eastern Fortress

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Celebrated as a trading port, Hong Kong was also Britain's "eastern fortress". Likened by many to Gibraltar and Malta, the colony was a vital but vulnerable link in imperial strategy, exposed to a ...
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Price: £25.00
Pages: 347
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Publication Date: 10 July 2014
Trim Size: 8.90 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9789888208715
Format: Paperback
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"Armed with a range of declassified archives--many of them unpublished--Kwong and Tsoi expertly weave together military, political, social, and economic history to show how Hong Kong played a strategic role in East Asia and the British Empire from the early