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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Portugués |
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Hong Kong [China] :
Hong Kong University Press,
2013
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| Colección: | Royal Asiatic Society books.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 residence. Drawing extensively on Portuguese as well as British sources, The British Presence in Macau traces Anglo- Portuguese relations in South China from the first arrival of English trading ships in the 1630s to the establishment of factories at Canton, the beginnings of the opium trade, and the Macartney Embassy of 1793. Longstanding allies in the west, the British and Portuguese pursued more complex relations in the east, as trading interests clashed under a Chinese imperial system and as the British increasingly asserted their power. |
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| Notas: | Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. "Originally published in Portuguese in 2009 as A presenca inglesa e as relacões anglo-portuguesas em Macau (1635-1793)"--T.p. verso. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (200 pages): digital file. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-199) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789882208445 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |