Download or read book An Account of the Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea in China written by Samuel Ball and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wardian Case written by Luke Keogh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a nineteenth-century invention (essentially a tiny greenhouse) that allowed for the first time the movement of plants around the world, feeding new agricultural industries, the commercial nursery trade, botanic and private gardens, invasive species, imperialism, and more. Roses, jasmine, fuchsia, chrysanthemums, and rhododendrons bloom in gardens across the world, and yet many of the most common varieties have roots in Asia. How is this global flowering possible? In 1829, surgeon and amateur naturalist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward placed soil, dried leaves, and the pupa of a sphinx moth into a sealed glass bottle, intending to observe the moth hatch. But when a fern and meadow grass sprouted from the soil, he accidentally discovered that plants enclosed in glass containers could survive for long periods without watering. After four years of experimentation in his London home, Ward created traveling glazed cases that would be able to transport plants around the world. Following a test run from London to Sydney, Ward was proven correct: the Wardian case was born, and the botanical makeup of the world’s flora was forever changed. In our technologically advanced and globalized contemporary world, it is easy to forget that not long ago it was extremely difficult to transfer plants from place to place, as they often died from mishandling, cold weather, and ocean salt spray. In this first book on the Wardian case, Luke Keogh leads us across centuries and seas to show that Ward’s invention spurred a revolution in the movement of plants—and that many of the repercussions of that revolution are still with us, from new industries to invasive plant species. From the early days of rubber, banana, tea, and cinchona cultivation—the last used in the production of the malaria drug quinine—to the collecting of beautiful and exotic flora like orchids in the first great greenhouses of the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC, and England’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Wardian case transformed the world’s plant communities, fueled the commercial nursery trade and late nineteenth-century imperialism, and forever altered the global environment.

Download or read book Tea written by Paul Chrystal and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of Britain’s greatest love affair begins with the arrival of tea here in the seventeenth century. Since then it has shaped our lives, our history, our work and our culture. So put the kettle on, and read the amazing story of tea.

Download or read book Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains list of members.

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Download or read book Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of the China Branch written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland China Branch and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of the China Branch written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Canton Trade written by Paul A. Van Dyke and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study utilizes a wide range of new source materials to reconstruct the day-to-day operations of the port of Canton during the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Using a bottom-up approach, it provides a fresh look at the successes and failures of the trade by focusing on the practices and procedures rather than on the official policies and protocols. The narrative, however, reads like a story as the author unravels the daily lives of all the players from sampan operators, pilots, compradors and linguists, to country traders, supercargoes, Hong merchants and customs officials. New areas to studies of this kind are covered as well, such as Armenians, junk traders and rice traders, all of whom played intricate roles in moving the commerce forward. The Canton Trade shows that contrary to popular belief, the trade was stable, predictable and secure, with many incentives built into the policies to encourage it to grow. The huge expansion of trade was, in fact, one of the factors that contributed to its collapse as the increase in revenues blinded government officials to the long-term deterioration of the lower administrative echelons. In the end, the system was toppled, but that happened mainly because it had already defeated itself. General readers and academicians interested in world and Asian history, trading companies, country trade, Hong merchants, and articles of trade will find much new and relevant information here.

Download or read book Canton Days written by John M. Carroll and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canton Days offers the first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842. During that period, Britons and other Westerners in China were restricted to trading and living in a tiny section of the city of Canton and the small Portuguese territory of Macao. At Canton, trade between China and the West was conducted through a group of Chinese merchant houses specially licensed by the Qing government. British encounters with China in this period have been seen mainly as a prelude to war, and Britons in China usually have been characterized as single-minded traders determined to open the Middle Kingdom by any means or missionaries bent on converting the Chinese “heathen” to Christianity. John M. Carroll challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China as he traces the lives and times of the expatriates at the heart of this vital center of trade and exchange. The author draws on a rich trove of archival sources to bring Canton and its leading figures to life, concluding with the deaths of three Britons, each revealing British concerns and anxieties about being in China. Written in a clear and lively style, his book will appeal to all readers interested in British imperial history, early modern Chinese history, and the worlds of expatriate and sojourning communities.

Download or read book Publications written by Index Society, London and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North-China Branch. Library and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tale of Tea written by George L. van Driem and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tale of Tea is the saga of globalisation. Tea gave birth to paper money, the Opium Wars and Hong Kong, triggered the Anglo-Dutch wars and the American war of independence, shaped the economies and military history of Táng and Sòng China and moulded Chinese art and culture. Whilst black tea dominates the global market today, such tea is a recent invention. No tea plantations existed in the world’s largest black tea producing countries, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka, when the Dutch and the English went to war about tea in the 17th century. This book replaces popular myths about tea with recondite knowledge on the hidden origins and detailed history of today’s globalised beverage in its many modern guises.

Download or read book Additions Made to the Library of Congress Since the First Day of November 1853 written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A catalogue of the library of the London institution by W Upcott R Thomson and E W Brayley written by William Upcott and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution The general library Additions from 1843 1852 An index of subjects An index of authors and books written by London Institution. Library and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: