| Author | : D. Bonner-Smith |
| File Size | : 46,9 Mb |
| Publisher | : Unknown |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 26 April 2024 |
| ISBN | : 0830500162 |
| Pages | : 413 pages |
Download or read online The Second China War 1856 1860 written by D. Bonner-Smith,Esmond Walter Rawson Lumby, published by Unknown which was released on 1954. Get The Second China War 1856 1860 Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle.
Get BookWong argues that the opium trade played a large causative role in the Anglo-Chinese Arrow War.
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Get BookDuring 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.
Get Book‘A gripping read as well as an important one.’ Rana Mitter, Guardian In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past hundred and seventy
Get BookIn this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839 1842 and 1856 1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal
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