Download or read book British Parliamentary Papers China Opium War and opium trade written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Parliamentary Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correspondence Returns Orders in Council and Other Papers Respecting the Opium War and Opium Trade in China 1840 85 written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book British Parliamentary Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correspondence Orders in Council and Reports Relative to the Opium War in China 1840 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by Irish Academic Press. This book was released on 1840 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thereafter there was in China a steady extension of the treaty port pattern so established, reflected in papers on the mechanisms and costs of empire (postal services, consular courts, maintenance of troops, suppression of piracy), as well as some of its problems (the Chinese coolie trade, rebellion in China, attacks on missionaries). As well the series includes a great many translations of Chinese documents, which are of great value to the historian. -- Publisher's catalogue.
Download or read book The Opium Question written by Samuel Warren and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Opium Trade and Sir Rutherford Alcock written by Benjamin Fossett Lock and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers Relating to the Opium Trade in China 1842 1856 written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correspondence Returns Orders in Council and Other Papers Respecting the Opiumwar and Opium Trade in China 1840 85 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report from the Select Committee on the Trade with China written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Trade with China and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China Papers Relating to the Opium Trade in China 1842 1856 In Continuation of Papers on the Same Subject Contained in correspondence Relating to China Presented to Parliament 1840 written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deadly Dreams written by J. Y. Wong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-07 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wong argues that the opium trade played a large causative role in the Anglo-Chinese Arrow War.
Download or read book The Lion and the Dragon written by Mark Simner and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2019-06-29 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 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. When the Qing dynasty rulers of China attempted to suppress this trade--due to the serious social and economic problems it caused--the British Government responded with gunboat diplomacy, and conflict soon ensued. The first conflict, known as the First Anglo-Chinese War or Opium War (1839-42), ended in British victory and the Treaty of Nanking. However, this treaty was heavily biased in favour of the British, and it would not be long before there was a renewal of hostilities, taking the form of what became known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War or Arrow War (1857-60). Again, the second conflict would end with an 'unequal treaty' that was heavily biased towards the victor. The Lion and the Dragon: Britain's Opium Wars with China, 1839-1860 examines the causes and ensuing military history of these tragic conflicts, as well as their bitter legacies.
Download or read book The Opium Question written by Samuel Warren and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
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.
Download or read book British Opium Policy and Its Results to India and China written by Frederick Storrs Turner and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
