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Author : Duncan McPherson
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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book The War in China written by Duncan McPherson and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9781104923051
Total Pages : 302 pages
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Download or read book The War in Chin written by Duncan McPherson and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Duncan McPherson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385126401
Total Pages : 302 pages
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Download or read book The War In China: Narrative of the Chinese Expedition, From Its Formation In April, 1840, To the Treaty of Peace In August, 1842 written by Duncan McPherson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Author : Mark Simner
Publisher : Fonthill Media
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Total Pages : 459 pages
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Download or read book The Lion and the Dragon written by Mark Simner and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2019-06-29 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India. When the Qing dynasty rulers of China attempted to suppress this trade--due to the serious social and economic problems it caused--the British Government responded with gunboat diplomacy, and conflict soon ensued. The first conflict, known as the First Anglo-Chinese War or Opium War (1839-42), ended in British victory and the Treaty of Nanking. However, this treaty was heavily biased in favour of the British, and it would not be long before there was a renewal of hostilities, taking the form of what became known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War or Arrow War (1857-60). Again, the second conflict would end with an 'unequal treaty' that was heavily biased towards the victor. The Lion and the Dragon: Britain's Opium Wars with China, 1839-1860 examines the causes and ensuing military history of these tragic conflicts, as well as their bitter legacies.
Author : Tonio Andrade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691178143
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Gunpowder Age written by Tonio Andrade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global history The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answer, opening a fresh perspective on a key question of world history: why did the countries of western Europe surge to global importance starting in the 1500s while China slipped behind? Historians have long argued that gunpowder weapons helped Europeans establish global hegemony. Yet the inhabitants of what is today China not only invented guns and bombs but also, as Andrade shows, continued to innovate in gunpowder technology through the early 1700s—much longer than previously thought. Why, then, did China become so vulnerable? Andrade argues that one significant reason is that it was out of practice fighting wars, having enjoyed nearly a century of relative peace, since 1760. Indeed, he demonstrates that China—like Europe—was a powerful military innovator, particularly during times of great warfare, such as the violent century starting after the Opium War, when the Chinese once again quickly modernized their forces. Today, China is simply returning to its old position as one of the world's great military powers. By showing that China’s military dynamism was deeper, longer lasting, and more quickly recovered than previously understood, The Gunpowder Age challenges long-standing explanations of the so-called Great Divergence between the West and Asia.
Author : Julia Lovell
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468313231
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book The Opium War written by Julia Lovell and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “crisp and readable account” of the nineteenth century British campaign sheds light on modern Chinese identity through “a heartbreaking story of war” (The Wall Street Journal). In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting voted to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that became a founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism, and depicts China’s heroic struggle against Western conspiracy. Julia Lovell examines the causes and consequences of the Opium War, interweaving tales of the opium pushers and dissidents. More importantly, she analyses how the Opium Wars shaped China’s self-image and created an enduring model for its interactions with the West, plagued by delusion and prejudice.
Author : Laurie Garrison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040128963
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 1 written by Laurie Garrison and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.
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Total Pages : 610 pages
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Download or read book The Metropolitan Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 596 pages
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Download or read book The Metropolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Lodge
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Total Pages : 766 pages
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Download or read book The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility by Edmund Lodge Esq written by Edmund Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The peerage of the British empire as at present existing. To which is added the baronetage written by Lodge Edmund and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Duncan MacPherson
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Total Pages : 430 pages
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Download or read book Two Years in China written by Duncan MacPherson and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009268503
Total Pages : 649 pages
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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s written by John Gardner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This instalment in the Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition series concerns a decade that was as technologically transitional as it was eventful on a global scale. It collects work from a group of internationally renowned scholars across disciplinary boundaries in order to engage with the wide array of cultural developments that defined the 1830s. Often overlooked as a boundary between the Romantic and Victorian periods, this decade was, the book proposes, the central pivot of the nineteenth century. Far from a time of peaceful reform, it was marked by violent colonial expansion, political resistance, and revolutionary technologies such as the photograph, the expansion of steam power, and the railway that changed the world irreversibly. Contributors explore a flurry of cultural forms to take the pulse of the decade, from Silver Fork fiction to lithography, from working-class periodicals to photographs, and from urban sketches to magazine fiction.
Author : John M. Carroll
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538157586
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book China Hands and Old Cantons written by John M. Carroll and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early encounters between Britain and China are best known for igniting the First Opium War. Yet they also produced an enormous archive of writings by Britons who spent time in China. Frustrated with the restrictions imposed by the Manchu rulers of the Qing Empire, and unable to live or travel elsewhere apart from Canton and Macao, these diplomats, traders, missionaries, travelers, and military officers devoted thousands of pages to understanding China, its people, and their civilization. In China Hands and Old Cantons, John M. Carroll draws on this wealth of memoirs, ethnographic studies, travel accounts, narratives of military action, translations, and newspaper articles to trace Britons’ wide-ranging, often thoughtful perspectives on China, long before anyone considered going to war. They discussed almost everything they saw and speculated about much of what they could not see—including the size of China’s massive population, the extent of infanticide, the origins and practice of foot binding, and the legality and morality of the opium trade. They claimed that only those who had been there could truly understand the Middle Kingdom and that their firsthand experience gave them and their publications an advantage over those in Britain and elsewhere. Carroll brings a seminal period in the Anglo-Chinese relationship, which revolved around tea and opium, to life through the words of those who experienced it intimately.
Author : Duncan MacPherson (M.D.)
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Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book The War in China. Narrative of the Chinese Expedition from Its Formation in April, 1840, to the Treaty of Peace in August, 1842 written by Duncan MacPherson (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Joseph Clarke (of Hull.)
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Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book A catalogue of the subscription library, at Kingston upon Hull [signed J.C.]. A catalogue, containing the works admitted since 1836 written by Joseph Clarke (of Hull.) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : John Mozley STARK
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Total Pages : 602 pages
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