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Free trade's first missionary : Sir John Bowring in Europe and Asia /
Reformer, intellectual, colonial governor, Sir John Bowring was the archetype of the ambitious men who made Britain a leading global power in the nineteenth century. Born to a modest trading family, he showed an aptitude for languages which led him to literature, then to radical politics in the stru...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
©2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Exeter lad's radical roots
- War, Spain and the Unitarians
- Bentham's favourite son
- A poisonous Greek pie
- Polyglot poet meets Kubla Khan
- Reforming politics and public accounts
- The new gospel : free trade
- Of Egypt and Levantine plagues
- Bolton : pit of poverty and progress
- Progressive MP coins the florin
- An ironmaster derails
- Opiate of various peoples
- Frustration at Canton
- Some progress on the China coast
- Arrow ploy sunk by ye
- The War of Two Bruces
- Hong Kong : good input, little output
- High-minded humiliation
- The king and he : a lasting legacy
- Philippine fiesta
- A new wife and energy to the end
- Conclusion : why he matters
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.