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Opium and Empire : The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (473 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773596825
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Opium and EmpireDDC classification:
  • 382.0941/05109034
LOC classification:
  • HF3508.C5 G73 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- Illustrations -- Prelude THE SCOTLAND OF THEIR BIRTH -- 1 ORIGINS -- 2 SAILING FROM LONDON TO CANTON -- 3 THE SIRENS OF COMMERCE -- 4 THE HEIRS OF COX AND BEALE -- 5 DOING BUSINESS AT CREEK HONG -- 6 CHARTING NEW WATERS -- 7 THE PARTNERS APART -- 8 APPROACHING THE SHOWDOWNIN CHINA -- 9 JARDINE'S FAREWELL AND MATHESON'S GREAT HEADACHE -- 10 JARDINE'S AND MATHESON'S ROLES IN THE OPIUM WAR -- 11 THEIR LIVES AFTER CHINA -- 12 SIR JAMES MATHESON,LAIRD OF LEWIS -- Postlude GENTLEMANLY CAPITALISTS? -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Summary: A close look at two infamous Scottish capitalists engaged in the opium trade.
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Cover -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- Illustrations -- Prelude THE SCOTLAND OF THEIR BIRTH -- 1 ORIGINS -- 2 SAILING FROM LONDON TO CANTON -- 3 THE SIRENS OF COMMERCE -- 4 THE HEIRS OF COX AND BEALE -- 5 DOING BUSINESS AT CREEK HONG -- 6 CHARTING NEW WATERS -- 7 THE PARTNERS APART -- 8 APPROACHING THE SHOWDOWNIN CHINA -- 9 JARDINE'S FAREWELL AND MATHESON'S GREAT HEADACHE -- 10 JARDINE'S AND MATHESON'S ROLES IN THE OPIUM WAR -- 11 THEIR LIVES AFTER CHINA -- 12 SIR JAMES MATHESON,LAIRD OF LEWIS -- Postlude GENTLEMANLY CAPITALISTS? -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

A close look at two infamous Scottish capitalists engaged in the opium trade.

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