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Abstract
While much has been written about the impact (or not) of Western intervention in the latter stages of the Taiping Rebellion (1851–1866), comparatively little attention has heretofore been directed towards the impact of the riverine campaigns and the combined land-river operations whereby the Qing steadily reduced the scope of Taiping control and tightened the cordon around their heavenly capital at Nanjing. Strategists such as Hu Linyi and Zuo Zongtang recognized the importance of riverine warfare and sought to build a Qing flotilla capable of meeting its military needs. Furthermore, the experience gained in riverine operations against the Taipings would later be applied in Zuo Zongtang's campaigns in northwest China and Central Asia to great effect. Using Zuo's personal accounts, contemporary newspaper reports, and other primary sources, this article highlights significance of rivers and riverine operations for the extension and maintenance of empire in late Qing China.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1. Warfare and Culture -- 2. The Last Campaign: The Assyrian Way of War and the Collapse of the Empire -- 3. Disciplining Octavian: A Case Study of Roman Military Culture, 44- 30 BCE -- 4. Herding the Enemy: Culture in Nomadic Warfare -- 5. How Spanish Was the Spanish Conquest? Reexamining Spanish Success in the New World -- 6. Of Bureaucrats and Bandits: Confucianism and Antirebel Strategy at the End of the Ming Dynasty -- 7. The Battle Culture of Forbearance, 1660- 1789 -- 8. Success and Failure in Civil War Armies: Clues from Organizational Culture -- 9. Imagining African Warfare: War Games and Military Cultures in German East Africa -- 10. German Military Culture and the Colonial War in Southwest Africa, 1904- 1907 -- 11. Connecting Culture and the Battlefield: Britain and the Empire Fight the Hundred Days -- 12. The American Culture of War in the Age of Artificial Limited War -- About the Contributors -- Index