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The British presence in Macau, 1635-1793 /

For more than four centuries, Macau was the center of Portuguese trade and culture on the South China Coast. Until the founding of Hong Kong and the opening of other ports in the 1840s, it was also the main gateway to China for independent British merchants and their only place of permanent residenc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Puga, Rogério Miguel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Portugués
Publicado: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2013.
©2013
Colección:Royal Asiatic Society books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Anglo-Portuguese conflicts and the founding of the East India Company
  • The voyage east: The beginning of Anglo-Portuguese relations in the East Indies
  • The arrival of the English in Macau
  • The beginning of regular East India Company trade with China
  • The gradual growth of the British presence in Macau in the early eighteenth century
  • Macau as a centre for Chinese control of the European "barbarians"
  • The visit of the Centurion
  • British relations and conflicts with the Portuguese and Chinese authorities in the second half of the eighteenth century
  • The "scramble for the use of Macau"
  • "Guests and old allies"
  • The importance of Macau for the British China trade
  • Lord Macartney's embassy to China, 1792-1794
  • Conclusion.