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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bowring, Philip (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2014.
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