00907nam a2200133Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200170007610000190009324500200011226000360013250005930016865000120076120250728154341.0250728s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a9780425180846  a951.035bPRE  aPreston, Diana 0aBoxer Rebellion  bNational Geographic Booksc2001  aChinese peasants chafed against the foreign technologies and ideas that the imperialists introduced. Then a new movement-mystical, materialistic, and virulently anti-Christian-began to spread among them like wildfire. The foreigners laughed at the peasants' martial-arts routines and nicknamed them "the Boxers"-never imagining that the group, with the backing of China's empress dowager, would soon terrorize the world...This acclaimed account of the Boxer Rebellion, by an Oxford-trained historian, is an important new addition to every shelf of high-quality, highly accessible history.  aHistory