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Robert Bickers
Researcher at University of Bristol
Publications - 83
Citations - 939
Robert Bickers is an academic researcher from University of Bristol. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Treaty. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 83 publications receiving 905 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Bickers include Nuffield College.
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The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914
TL;DR: In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire.
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Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism 1900-1949
Tom Buchanan,Robert Bickers +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Gewald describes how the Herero abandoned their employers to establish themselves in areas of their choice, and how the South Africans were unable to force them to stay with their employers, and the failing of the grain harvests in Ovamboland induced young men to head south in search of employment, where they replaced the herero.
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Shanghailanders: The formation and identity of the British settler community in Shanghai 1843-1937
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Shanghai's "Dogs and Chinese Not admitted" sign: Legend, history and contemporary symbol
TL;DR: The authors examines the potency and persistence of myth and language in the context of the dispute, now over 80 years old, about the officially-sanctioned wording of regulations in the municipal parks of foreign-administered Shanghai.
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Toward integrated historical climate research: The example of Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth
Rob Allan,Georgina H. Endfield,Vinita Damodaran,George Adamson,Matthew J. Hannaford,Fiona Carroll,Neil Macdonald,Nick Groom,Julie M. Jones,Fiona Williamson,Erica Hendy,Paul Holper,J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora,Lorna Hughes,Robert Bickers,Ana-Maria Bliuc +15 more
TL;DR: The International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) initiative as mentioned in this paper is an example of such an integrated approach, which was originally developed as a response from climate science to the needs of the agricultural sector in Queensland, Australia for a longer, more spatially and temporally complete database of the weather.