Author: John Murray ForbesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Letters (supplementary) of John Murray Forbes
Author: John Murray ForbesLetters (supplementary) of John Murray Forbes
Author: John Murray ForbesLetters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes
Author: John Murray ForbesPublisher:
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Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Reminiscences of John Murray Forbes
Author: John Murray ForbesThe Peacemakers of 1864
Author: Edward Chase KirklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Imperial Twilight
Author: Stephen R. PlattPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345803027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
The Golden Ghetto
Author: Jacques M. DownsPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888139096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Before the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where foreign merchants were allowed to trade. The Golden Ghetto takes us into the world of one of this city’s most important foreign communities—the Americans—during the decades between the American Revolution of 1776 and the signing of the Sino-US Treaty of Wanghia in 1844. American merchants lived in isolation from Chinese society in sybaritic, albeit usually celibate luxury. Making use of exhaustive research, Downs provides an especially clear explanation of the Canton commercial setting generally and of the role of American merchants. Many of these men made fortunes and returned home to become important figures in the rapidly developing United States. The book devotes particular attention to the biographical details of the principal American traders, the leading American firms, and their operations in Canton and the United States. Opium smuggling receives especial emphasis, as does the important topic of early diplomatic relations between the United States and China. Since its first publication in 1997, The Golden Ghettohas been recognized as the leading work on Americans trading at Canton. Long out of print, this new edition makes this key work again available, both to scholars and a wider readership. “The fullest exposition on the subject thus far and as the final word on extant, previously untapped, English-language sources.” — Eileen Scully, in The China Quarterly
Trading Freedom
Author: Dael A. NorwoodPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226815587
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Introduction: America's Business with China -- Founding a Free, Trading Republic -- The Paradox of a Pacific Policy -- Troubled Waters -- Sovereign Rights, or America's First Opium Problem -- The Empire's New Roads -- This Slave Trade of the Nineteenth Century -- A Propped-Open Door -- Death of a Trade, Birth of a Market.
Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Author: Eric FonerPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195094972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern Americanhistorians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. modern American historical writing.