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Author: William Falconer
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Author: William Falconer
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Author: William Falconer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108040039
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 863
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This 1813 dictionary covers every aspect of seafaring, from shipbuilding to navigation, and from supplies to signals.
Author: William FALCONER (Poet.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Author: William Burney
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Author: Library company of Philadelphia
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Languages : en
Pages : 1150
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Languages : en
Pages : 1148
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Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
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Author: William Falconer
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Author: Paul A. Van Dyke
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888528351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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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
