Trading Freedom : How Trade with China Defined Early America /

Trading Freedom explores the surprisingly rich early history of US-China trade and its unexpected impact on the developing republic. The economic and geographic development of the pre-twentieth-century United States is usually thought of in trans-Atlantic terms, defined by entanglements with Europe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Norwood, Dael A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022]
Colección:American Beginnings, 1500-1900
Temas:
China-Commerce-United States.
China-Relations-United States.
United States-Commerce-China.
United States-Relations-China.
HISTORY / General.
China trade, tea, silver, opium, capital, labor, shipping, political economy, United States, China.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: America's Business with China
  • Chapter One. Founding a Free, Trading Republic
  • Chapter Two. The Paradox of a Pacific Policy
  • Chapter Three. Troubled Waters
  • Chapter Four. Sovereign Rights, or America's First Opium Problem
  • Chapter Five. The Empire's New Roads
  • Chapter Six. This Slave Trade of the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter Seven. A Propped- Open Door
  • Chapter Eight. Death of a Trade, Birth of a Market
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Accounting for the China Trade
  • Notes
  • Index

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