Author: sir George Thomas Staunton (2nd bart.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Memoirs of the Chief Incidents of the Public Life of Sir George T. Staunton
Author: Sir George Thomas Staunton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Memoirs of the chief incidents of the public life of sir George Thomas Staunton [written by himself].
Author: sir George Thomas Staunton (2nd bart.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Memoirs of the Chief Incidents of the Public Life of Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bart., Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford
Author: Sir George Thomas Staunton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Memoirs of the Chief Incidents of the Public Life of Printed for Private Circulation
Author: George Thomas Staunton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Memoirs of the Chief Incidents of the Public Life of Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bart., Hon. D. C. L. of Oxford
Author: Sir George Thomas Staunton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Canton Days
Author: John M. Carroll
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538136309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Canton Days offers the first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842. During that period, Britons and other Westerners in China were restricted to trading and living in a tiny section of the city of Canton and the small Portuguese territory of Macao. At Canton, trade between China and the West was conducted through a group of Chinese merchant houses specially licensed by the Qing government. British encounters with China in this period have been seen mainly as a prelude to war, and Britons in China usually have been characterized as single-minded traders determined to open the Middle Kingdom by any means or missionaries bent on converting the Chinese “heathen” to Christianity. John M. Carroll challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China as he traces the lives and times of the expatriates at the heart of this vital center of trade and exchange. The author draws on a rich trove of archival sources to bring Canton and its leading figures to life, concluding with the deaths of three Britons, each revealing British concerns and anxieties about being in China. Written in a clear and lively style, his book will appeal to all readers interested in British imperial history, early modern Chinese history, and the worlds of expatriate and sojourning communities.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538136309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Canton Days offers the first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842. During that period, Britons and other Westerners in China were restricted to trading and living in a tiny section of the city of Canton and the small Portuguese territory of Macao. At Canton, trade between China and the West was conducted through a group of Chinese merchant houses specially licensed by the Qing government. British encounters with China in this period have been seen mainly as a prelude to war, and Britons in China usually have been characterized as single-minded traders determined to open the Middle Kingdom by any means or missionaries bent on converting the Chinese “heathen” to Christianity. John M. Carroll challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China as he traces the lives and times of the expatriates at the heart of this vital center of trade and exchange. The author draws on a rich trove of archival sources to bring Canton and its leading figures to life, concluding with the deaths of three Britons, each revealing British concerns and anxieties about being in China. Written in a clear and lively style, his book will appeal to all readers interested in British imperial history, early modern Chinese history, and the worlds of expatriate and sojourning communities.
Writing China
Author: Peter J. Kitson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843844451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focusing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843844451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focusing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.
Catalogue of Books Printed for Private Circulation
Author: Bertram Dobell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Privately printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Privately printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
British Travel Writing from China, 1798-1901, Volume 1
Author: Elizabeth H Chang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000558673
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000558673
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.
The Correspondence of Michael Faraday
Author: Michael Faraday
Publisher: IET
ISBN: 0863418236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 895
Book Description
This volume includes 70% of previously unpublished letters of Michael Farday spanning half of the 1850s and most of 1860. Topics include Faraday's work on regelation, the transmission of light through gold and his appointment by Emperor Napoleon III to be a Commander of the Legion of Honour.
Publisher: IET
ISBN: 0863418236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 895
Book Description
This volume includes 70% of previously unpublished letters of Michael Farday spanning half of the 1850s and most of 1860. Topics include Faraday's work on regelation, the transmission of light through gold and his appointment by Emperor Napoleon III to be a Commander of the Legion of Honour.