Author: Jean Gordon LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Philadelphians and the China Trade, 1784-1844
Author: Jean Gordon LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Philadelphians and the China Trade, 1784-1844
Author: PHILADELPHIANS AND THE CHINA TRADE, ˜1784-1844œ (SEVENTEEN AND EIGHTY-FOUR TO EIGHTEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR).
Author: JEAN GORDON LEEPhiladelphians and the China Trade, 1784-1844
Author: Jean Gordon LeePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812211726
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
America Views China
Author: Jonathan GoldsteinPublisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN: 9780934223133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
U.S. historians present 16 essays on the American view of the Chinese from the 18th century to the present. Among the perspectives are art, commerce, missionary activity, diplomacy, popular culture, and a comparison with images of Japan. Includes a general bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Adventurous Pursuits
Author: Margaret C. S. ChristmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The History of Early Relations Between the United States and China, 1784-1844
Author: Kenneth Scott LatourettePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
Author: Eric Jay DolinPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 087140348X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China. Indeed, the furious trade in furs, opium, and bêche-de-mer—a rare sea cucumber delicacy—might have catalyzed America’s emerging economy, but it also sparked an ecological and human rights catastrophe of such epic proportions that the reverberations can still be felt today. Peopled with fascinating characters—from the “Financier of the Revolution” Robert Morris to the Chinese emperor Qianlong, who considered foreigners inferior beings—this page-turning saga of pirates and politicians, coolies and concubines becomes a must-read for any fan of Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower or Mark Kurlansky’s Cod.
The Dutch East India Company's Tea Trade with China
Author: Yong LiuPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004155996
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This case study of the tea trade of the Dutch East India Company with China deals with the most profitable phase of the Dutch Company's China trade, focusing on the question why and how the tea trade was taken out of the hands of the High Government in Batavia and put under the supervision of the newly established China Committee in 1757. Various factors which contributed to the phenomenal rise of this trade and its sudden decline are dealt with in detail. Filling in lacunae left open by previous research and this monograph contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the VOC trade with Asia.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 13
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691185212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
This volume's 598 documents span 22 April 1818 to 31 January 1819. Jefferson spends months preparing for a meeting to choose the site of the state university. He drafts the Rockfish Gap Report recommending the location of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville as well as legislation confirming this decision. Jefferson travels to Warm Springs to cure his rheumatism but instead contracts a painful infection on his buttocks. His enforced absence from Poplar Forest leads to detailed correspondence with plantation manager Joel Yancey. A work that Jefferson helped translate, Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy, is finally published. Salma Hale visits Monticello and describes Jefferson’s views on food, wine, and religion. In acknowledging an oration by Mordecai M. Noah, Jefferson remarks that the suffering of members of the Jewish faith "has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal spirit of religious intolerance." He receives long discussions of occult science and the nature of light by Robert Miller and Gabriel Crane. Abigail Adams dies, and Jefferson assures John Adams that their own demise will result in “an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved & lost and whom we shall still love and never lose again.”