Author: Walter William Mundy
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Canton and the Bogue
Author: Walter William Mundy
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Canton and the Bogue. The Narrative of an Eventful Six Months in China
Author: Walter William Mundy
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385365767
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385365767
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis from 1840 to 1843 and of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China
Author: William Dallas Bernard
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Category : Cape Town
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Cape Town
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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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
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
The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed
Author: National cyclopaedia
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis from 1840 to 1843, and of the Combined Naval Military Operations in China (...)
Author: Hall W.H.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The Opium War, 1840-1842
Author: Peter Ward Fay
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807847145
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irrever
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807847145
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irrever
A Century of Empire, 1801-1900
Author: Sir Herbert Maxwell
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Summary of Floods in the United States During 1961
Author: Julian Ordean Rostvedt
Publisher:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Publisher:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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