Author: Christina Baird
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039109265
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Perhaps the most enduring image of the China Trade is the clipper ship carrying tea from China. In 1869 the clippers were finally overshadowed by the introduction of steam vessels which could make passage through the Suez Canal, significantly shortening the length of the voyage. Letters, journals and order books have survived which tell us about the traders, their private trading activities, motivation, tastes and private lives. This book examines the role played by the port of Liverpool in this time of great change. The book examines Liverpool's early participation in the China Trade following the cessation of the British East India Company's monopoly of the trade in 1834 and maps the changes in artistic tastes that the commencement of free trade gave rise to. These new tastes represented a true fusion of European and Chinese cultural influences and replaced the pastiche of 'The Orient' that chinoiserie represented during the period of the monopoly.--Amazon.com.
Liverpool China Traders
Author: Christina Baird
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039109265
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Perhaps the most enduring image of the China Trade is the clipper ship carrying tea from China. In 1869 the clippers were finally overshadowed by the introduction of steam vessels which could make passage through the Suez Canal, significantly shortening the length of the voyage. Letters, journals and order books have survived which tell us about the traders, their private trading activities, motivation, tastes and private lives. This book examines the role played by the port of Liverpool in this time of great change. The book examines Liverpool's early participation in the China Trade following the cessation of the British East India Company's monopoly of the trade in 1834 and maps the changes in artistic tastes that the commencement of free trade gave rise to. These new tastes represented a true fusion of European and Chinese cultural influences and replaced the pastiche of 'The Orient' that chinoiserie represented during the period of the monopoly.--Amazon.com.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039109265
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Perhaps the most enduring image of the China Trade is the clipper ship carrying tea from China. In 1869 the clippers were finally overshadowed by the introduction of steam vessels which could make passage through the Suez Canal, significantly shortening the length of the voyage. Letters, journals and order books have survived which tell us about the traders, their private trading activities, motivation, tastes and private lives. This book examines the role played by the port of Liverpool in this time of great change. The book examines Liverpool's early participation in the China Trade following the cessation of the British East India Company's monopoly of the trade in 1834 and maps the changes in artistic tastes that the commencement of free trade gave rise to. These new tastes represented a true fusion of European and Chinese cultural influences and replaced the pastiche of 'The Orient' that chinoiserie represented during the period of the monopoly.--Amazon.com.
Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool
Author: Graeme J. Milne
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853236160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book charts the development of Liverpool's trade, shipping and business culture in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. It assesses the causes and consequences of major changes in the port's economy.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853236160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book charts the development of Liverpool's trade, shipping and business culture in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. It assesses the causes and consequences of major changes in the port's economy.
China Bound
Author: Robert Bickers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472949951
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies. John Swire & Sons, a small trading company that began by importing dyes, cotton and apples from the Americas, now directs a highly diversified group of interests operating across the globe but with a core focus on Asia. From 1866 its fate was intertwined with developments in China, with the story of steam, and later of flight, and with the movements of people and of goods that made the modern world. China Bound charts the story of the firm, its family owners and staff, its operations, its successes and its disasters, as it endured wars, uprisings and revolutions, the rise and fall of empires - China's, Britain's, Japan's – and the twists and turns of the global economy. This is the story of a business that reshaped Hong Kong, developed Cathay Pacific Airways, dominated China's pre-Second World War shipping industry, and helped pioneer containerization. Robert Bickers' remarkable new book is the history of a business, and of its worlds, of modern China, Britain, and of the globalization that entangled them, of compradors, ship-owners, and seamen, sugar travellers, tea-tasters, and stuff merchants, revolutionaries, pirates and Taipans. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in global commerce, China Bound provides an intimate history that helps explain the shape of Asia today.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472949951
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies. John Swire & Sons, a small trading company that began by importing dyes, cotton and apples from the Americas, now directs a highly diversified group of interests operating across the globe but with a core focus on Asia. From 1866 its fate was intertwined with developments in China, with the story of steam, and later of flight, and with the movements of people and of goods that made the modern world. China Bound charts the story of the firm, its family owners and staff, its operations, its successes and its disasters, as it endured wars, uprisings and revolutions, the rise and fall of empires - China's, Britain's, Japan's – and the twists and turns of the global economy. This is the story of a business that reshaped Hong Kong, developed Cathay Pacific Airways, dominated China's pre-Second World War shipping industry, and helped pioneer containerization. Robert Bickers' remarkable new book is the history of a business, and of its worlds, of modern China, Britain, and of the globalization that entangled them, of compradors, ship-owners, and seamen, sugar travellers, tea-tasters, and stuff merchants, revolutionaries, pirates and Taipans. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in global commerce, China Bound provides an intimate history that helps explain the shape of Asia today.
Journal
Author: California. Legislature
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
East-India and China Trade
Author:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
China Trade: Containing the Entire Substance of the Evidence Laid Before the House of Commons, in the Session of 1830; Extracted and Condensed, from the Report of the Committee; for Commercial and Political Uses
Author: Thomas John Buckton
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
China Trade and Empire
Author: Alain Le Pichon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263372
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
263 letters written by or to William Jardine and James Matheson... covers a period of rapid growth for Jardine, Matheson & Co, from 1827 when the founders first joined forces, to Jardine's death in 1843, shortly after the end of the Opium War
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263372
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
263 letters written by or to William Jardine and James Matheson... covers a period of rapid growth for Jardine, Matheson & Co, from 1827 when the founders first joined forces, to Jardine's death in 1843, shortly after the end of the Opium War
Report on Insurance Business in the United States at the Eleventh Census, 1890: Fire, marine, and inland insurance
Author: United States. Census Office. 11th census, 1890
Publisher: Norman Ross Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Publisher: Norman Ross Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Eleventh Census of the United States, 1890
Author: United States. Census Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Includes reports on population, housing, agriculture, education, language, employment, crime, manufacturing, commerce, geography, territories and possessions, vital statistics and life tables.
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Includes reports on population, housing, agriculture, education, language, employment, crime, manufacturing, commerce, geography, territories and possessions, vital statistics and life tables.
Report on Insurance Business in the United States at the Eleventh Census, 1890: Fire, marine, and inland insurance
Author: Charles A. Jenney
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Category : Business insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description