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Merchants of War and Peace : British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War.
Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and cultural conflicts between 'progressive' Britain and 'backward' China. Instead, i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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HK :
Hong Kong University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue; Map of the Pearl River Delta in the 1830s; 1. Introduction; 2. The Warlike and Pacific Parties; 3. Breaking the Soft Border; 4. Intellectual Artillery; 5. A War of Words over 'Barbarian'; 6. Reasoning Britain into a War; 7. The Regret of a Nation; 8. Conclusions: Profit Orders of Canton; Acknowledgements; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.