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America's first adventure in China trade, treaties, opium, and salvation
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America's first adventure in China [electronic resource] : trade, treaties, opium, and salvation / John R. Haddad.
ISBN
9781439906910
9781439906897 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781439906903
Published
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 283 pages :) illustrations, map ;
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE – UPCC 2017 Archive Complete Supplement V.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-273) and index.
Contents
First contact : the voyage of the empress of China
System men : the rise of Perkins & Co.
All for a cup of tea : finding goods for the Canton market
Beachhead of God : the first wave of missionaries
Rising on smoke : opium and identity in Canton
Formal ties : the Caleb Cushing mission
Centrifugal force : the spread of people, goods, capital, and ideas
Heavenly war : Americans and the Taiping rebellion
Cooperation : Burlingame and the reinvention of Sino-western relations.
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