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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 defense of British national honor, and cultural conflicts between 'progressive' Britain and 'backward' China. Instead, it...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chen, Song-Chuan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo