Author: Walter William MundyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385365767
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Canton and the Bogue. The Narrative of an Eventful Six Months in China
Author: Walter William MundyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385365767
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Canton and the Bogue
Author: Walter William MundyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Bogue's Guides for Travellers ... With Maps, Etc
Author: David BogueGeological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author: Niles' National Register
Author: The Opium Wars
Author: W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D.Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402252056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium Wars In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug, opium wrought havoc on Chinese society. By the early nineteenth century, 90 percent of the Emperor's court and the majority of the army were opium addicts. Britain was also a nation addicted—to tea, grown in China, and paid for with profits made from the opium trade. When China tried to ban the use of the drug and bar its Western smugglers from it gates, England decided to fight to keep open China's ports for its importation. England, the superpower of its time, managed to do so in two wars, resulting in a drug-induced devastation of the Chinese people that would last 150 years. In this page-turning, dramatic and colorful history, The Opium Wars responds to past, biased Western accounts by representing the neglected Chinese version of the story and showing how the wars stand as one of the monumental clashes between the cultures of East and West. "A fine popular account."—Publishers Weekly "Their account of the causes, military campaigns and tragic effects of these wars is absorbing, frequently macabre and deeply unsettling."—Booklist
Niles' Weekly Register ...
Author: Hezekiah NilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Summary of Floods in the United States During 1961
Author: Julian Ordean RostvedtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A Chinese Commercial Guide; consisting of a collection of details and regulations respecting foreign trade with China, sailing directions, tables, etc. ... Fourth edition, revised and enlarged
Author: Samuel Wells WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843
Author: William Dallas BernardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description