Author: Robert Ephraim Peabody
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Category : Privateering
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The Log of the Grand Turks
Author: Robert Ephraim Peabody
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Privateering
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Privateering
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Log of the Grand Turks
Author: Robert Ephraim Peabody
Publisher:
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Category : Privateering
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Publisher:
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Category : Privateering
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The Log of the Grand Turks ... (The Histories of Four Famous American Sailing Vessels ... Each of which Bore the Name 'Grand Turk'.) [With Plates, Including Portraits, and Endpaper Maps.].
Author: Robert Ephraim Peabody
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Languages : en
Pages :
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The Log of the Grand Turks ... With Illustrations
Author: Robert Ephraim PEABODY
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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The Nation
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Books and Notes
Author: Los Angeles County Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 1364
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Languages : en
Pages : 1364
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The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America
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Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Languages : en
Pages : 430
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The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America
Author: John Ward Dean
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Whampoa and the Canton Trade
Author: Paul A. Van Dyke
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888528351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Paul A. Van Dyke’s new book, Whampoa and the Canton Trade: Life and Death in a Chinese Port, 1700–1842, authoritatively corrects misconceptions about how the Qing government treated foreigners when it controlled all trade in the Guangzhou port. Van Dyke reappraises the role of Whampoa in the system—a port twenty kilometres away from Guangzhou—and reassesses the government’s attitude towards foreigners, which was much more accommodating than previous research suggested. In fact, Van Dyke shows that foreigners were not bound by local laws and were given freedom of movement around Whampoa and Canton to the extent that they were treated with leniency even when found in off-limit places. Whampoa and the Canton Trade recounts the lives of seamen who travelled half-way around the globe at great risk and lived through a historic period that would become the framework for subsequent encounters between China and the rest of the world. Were it not for the exchanges between the major powers and the Qing empire, the world—as we know it—would be a rather different place. Hence, Van Dyke’s command of data mining shows that Whampoa was a key pillar in the Canton System and, thus, in the making of the modern world economy. ‘Paul Van Dyke has transformed our understanding of the Canton trade. In this book, he brings his enormous knowledge of the primary sources to this study of Whampoa, the anchorage on the Pearl River used by all foreign ships when that trade was confined to the port of Canton, presenting “a view of the trade from the common seaman’s perspective.”’ —Evelyn S. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh ‘Paul A. Van Dyke wonderfully brings to life the drudgery and danger faced by the diverse men who worked the ships of the Canton trade. He skilfully fashions vivid images of the texture of their lives from danger to boredom, from illnesses and accidents to drinking and whoring.’ —R. Bin Wong, UCLA
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888528351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Paul A. Van Dyke’s new book, Whampoa and the Canton Trade: Life and Death in a Chinese Port, 1700–1842, authoritatively corrects misconceptions about how the Qing government treated foreigners when it controlled all trade in the Guangzhou port. Van Dyke reappraises the role of Whampoa in the system—a port twenty kilometres away from Guangzhou—and reassesses the government’s attitude towards foreigners, which was much more accommodating than previous research suggested. In fact, Van Dyke shows that foreigners were not bound by local laws and were given freedom of movement around Whampoa and Canton to the extent that they were treated with leniency even when found in off-limit places. Whampoa and the Canton Trade recounts the lives of seamen who travelled half-way around the globe at great risk and lived through a historic period that would become the framework for subsequent encounters between China and the rest of the world. Were it not for the exchanges between the major powers and the Qing empire, the world—as we know it—would be a rather different place. Hence, Van Dyke’s command of data mining shows that Whampoa was a key pillar in the Canton System and, thus, in the making of the modern world economy. ‘Paul Van Dyke has transformed our understanding of the Canton trade. In this book, he brings his enormous knowledge of the primary sources to this study of Whampoa, the anchorage on the Pearl River used by all foreign ships when that trade was confined to the port of Canton, presenting “a view of the trade from the common seaman’s perspective.”’ —Evelyn S. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh ‘Paul A. Van Dyke wonderfully brings to life the drudgery and danger faced by the diverse men who worked the ships of the Canton trade. He skilfully fashions vivid images of the texture of their lives from danger to boredom, from illnesses and accidents to drinking and whoring.’ —R. Bin Wong, UCLA