Creating the Opium War
British imperial attitudes towards China, 1792-1840
Creating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War - a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West in the next century. It makes the first attempt to bring together the political history of Sino-western relations and the cultural studies of British representations of China, as a new way of explaining the origins of the conflict. The book focuses on a crucial period (1792-1840), which scholars such as Kitson and Markley have recently compared in importance to that of American and French Rev…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5261-3344-1
- EAN: 9781526133441
- Produktnummer: 33299828
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 580 KB
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Hao Gao is Lecturer in Imperial and Global History at the University of Exeter
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