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Book Review of the Management of Our Affairs in China

Download or read book Review of the Management of Our Affairs in China written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Asiatic Journal

Download or read book The Asiatic Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes

Download or read book Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes written by Li Chen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties of maintaining a profitable but precarious relationship with China? In Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes, Li Chen provides a richly textured analysis of these related issues and their intersection with law, culture, and politics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using a wide array of sources, Chen's study focuses on the power dynamics of Sino-Western relations during the formative century before the First Opium War (1839-1842). He highlights the centrality of law to modern imperial ideology and politics and brings new insight to the origins of comparative Chinese law in the West, the First Opium War, and foreign extraterritoriality in China. The shifting balance of economic and political power formed and transformed knowledge of China and Chinese law in different contact zones. Chen argues that recovering the variegated and contradictory roles of Chinese law in Western "modernization" helps provincialize the subsequent Euro-Americentric discourse of global modernity. Chen draws attention to important yet underanalyzed sites in which imperial sovereignty, national identity, cultural tradition, or international law and order were defined and restructured. His valuable case studies show how constructed differences between societies were hardened into cultural or racial boundaries and then politicized to rationalize international conflicts and hierarchy.

Book The American Eclectic

Download or read book The American Eclectic written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imagining Britain   s Economic Future  c 1800   1975

Download or read book Imagining Britain s Economic Future c 1800 1975 written by David Thackeray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Brexit vote, this book offers a timely historical assessment of the different ways that Britain’s economic future has been imagined and how British ideas have influenced global debates about market relationships over the past two centuries. The 2016 EU referendum hinged to a substantial degree on how competing visions of the UK should engage with foreign markets, which in turn were shaped by competing understandings of Britain’s economic past. The book considers the following inter-related questions: - What roles does economic imagination play in shaping people’s behaviour and how far can insights from behavioural economics be applied to historical issues of market selection? - How useful is the concept of the ‘official mind’ for explaining the development of market relationships? - What has been the relationship between expanding communications and the development of markets? - How and why have certain regions or groupings (e.g. the Commonwealth) been ‘unimagined’- losing their status as promising markets for the future?

Book The Westminster Review

Download or read book The Westminster Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 1484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Opium  Soldiers and Evangelicals

Download or read book Opium Soldiers and Evangelicals written by H. Gelber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions the universal belief that England's 1840-42 war with China was an 'Opium War'. What really worried London was 'insults to the crown', the claim of a dilapidated and corrupt China to be superior to everyone, threats to British men and women and seizure of British property, plus the wish to expand and free trade everywhere. It was only much later that general Chinese resentment and Evangelical opinion at home - and in America - persuaded everyone that Britain had indeed been wicked and fought for opium.

Book Manual of Chinese bibliography  a list of works relating to China  by P G    O F  M  llendorff

Download or read book Manual of Chinese bibliography a list of works relating to China by P G O F M llendorff written by Paul Georg von Möllendorff and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report on Hong Kong

Download or read book Annual Report on Hong Kong written by Hong Kong and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Manual of Chinese Bibliography  Being a List of Works and Essays Relating to China

Download or read book Manual of Chinese Bibliography Being a List of Works and Essays Relating to China written by Paul Georg von Möllendorff and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Britain s China Policy and the Opium Crisis

Download or read book Britain s China Policy and the Opium Crisis written by Glenn Melancon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Opium War (1840-42) was a defining moment in Anglo-Chinese relations, and since the 1840s the histories of its origins have tended to have been straightforward narratives, which suggest that the British Cabinet turned to its military to protect opium sales and to force open the China trade. Whilst the monetary aspects of the war cannot be ignored, this book argues that economic interests should not overshadow another important aspect of British foreign policy - honour and shame. The Palmerston's government recognised that failure to act with honour generated public outrage in the form of petitions to parliament and loss of votes, and as a result was at pains to take such considerations into account when making policy. Accordingly, British Cabinet officials worried less about the danger to economic interests than the threat to their honour and the possible loss of power in Parliament. The decision to wage a drug war, however, made the government vulnerable to charges of immorality, creating the need to justify the war by claiming it was acting to protect British national honour.

Book The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria

Download or read book The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria written by Public Library of Victoria and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of Congress  Aargau to Lichfield

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress Aargau to Lichfield written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: