Mr. Smith Goes to China : three Scots in the making of Britain's global empire / Jessica Hanser.

9780300236088

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

xiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

An illuminating account of global commerce in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders. This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders--George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras--and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner workings of Britain's imperial expansion and global network of trade, revealing how an unstable credit system and a financial crisis ultimately led to greater British intervention in India and China.

English

July 16, 2019

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-226) and index.