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Author : William Conrad Costin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015004720556
Author : W. C. Costin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:458933147
Author : Britten Dean
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171811
Describes the expansion and transformation of China's economic relations with Great Britain, when China was forced to agree to a treaty settlement to open a larger number of ports to foreign trade.
Author : H. Gelber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230000704
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.
Author : William G Beasley,William G. Beasley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134244812
Reissue in paperback (with new Introduction) of the 1951 classic analysis of the crucial years leading up to the Meiji restoration in which Britain provided Japan with its wealth and power model.
Author : Richard Cobden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780199211982
The letters of Richard Cobden (1804-1865)' provides, in four printed volumes, the first critical edition of Cobden's letters, publishing the complete text in as near the original form as possible. The letters are accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, together with an introduction to each volume which re-assesses Cobden's importance in their light. Together, these volumes make available a unique source of the understanding of British liberalism in its European and international contexts, throwing new light on issues such as the repeal of the Corn Laws, British radical movements, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, Anglo-French relations, and the American Civil War. The fourth and final volume, drawing on some forty-six archives worldwide, is dominated by Cobden's search for a permanent political legacy at home and abroad, following the severe check to his health in the autumn of 1859. In January 1860, he succeeded in negotiating the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty, a landmark in Anglo-French relations designed to bind the two nations closer together, and to provide the basis for a Europe united by free trade.
Author : Harry Gelber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319305844
The ‘battle for Beijing’ is universally – and quite wrongly – believed to have been about opium. This book argues that it was about freedom to trade, Britain’s demands for diplomatic equality, and French demands for religious freedom in China. Both countries agreed that their armies, which repeatedly prevailed over Chinese ones that were numerically superior, would stay out of Beijing itself, but were infuriated by China’s imprisonment, torture and death of British, French and Indian negotiators. At the same time, the British and French also helped the empire to battle rebels and to pocket port and harbour dues. They steered carefully between their political and trading demands, and navigated the danger that undue stress would make China’s fragile government and empire fall apart. If it did, there would be no one to make any kind of agreement with; much of East Asia would be in chaos and Russian power would soon expand. Battle for Beijing, 1858–1860 offers fresh insights into the reasons behind the actions and strategies of British authorities, both at home and in China, and the British and French military commanders. It goes against the widely accepted views surrounding the Franco-British conflict, proposing a bold new argument and perspective.
Author : Robin W. Winks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780198205661
This volume investigates the shape and the development of scholarly and popular opinion about the British Empire over the centuries.
Author : J. Y. Wong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521526191
Wong argues that the opium trade played a large causative role in the Anglo-Chinese Arrow War.
Author : Glenn Melancon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351954730
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.
Author : Yu Suzuki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429755491
This book revises the conventional wisdom about the Anglo-Japanese relationship in the late nineteenth century that these two countries were bound by mutual sympathy and common interests, and therefore the common ground which led to the signing of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1902, had already existed in the 1880s. Such understandings fail to take account of the fact that the Qing dynasty of China had emerged as the strongest regional power in East Asia by reasserting its influence as the traditional suzerain of the region in the years prior to the First Sino-Japanese War. The British and the Japanese governments clearly recognised that it would become difficult to maintain their interests in East Asia if they antagonised the Qing by challenging its claim of suzerainty over Korea. It was difficult for them to come to closer terms when their priority before 1894-5 was to maintain good relations with China, and when they were also experiencing numerous diplomatic difficulties with each other.
Author : Robin Winks
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191647697
The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford History of the British Empire as a comprehensive study helps us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as for the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. This fifth and final volume shows how opinions have changed dramatically over the generations about the nature, role, and value of imperialism generally, and the British Empire more specifically. The distinguished team of contributors discuss the many and diverse elements which have influenced writings on the Empire: the pressure of current events, access to primary sources, the creation of relevant university chairs, the rise of nationalism in former colonies, decolonization, and the Cold War. They demonstrate how the study of empire has evolved from a narrow focus on constitutional issues to a wide-ranging enquiry about international relations, the uses of power, and impacts and counterimpacts between settler groups and native peoples. The result is a thought-provoking cultural and intellectual inquiry into how we understand the past, and whether this understanding might affect the way we behave in the future.
Author : Cooley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004645301
Author : 张海鹏,翟金懿著
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9787520356350
《简明中国近代史读本》是为公众撰写的一本中国近代史简明读本。该书坚持历史唯物主义，反对历史虚无主义，以1840-1949年近代中国的政治发展为，兼顾近代中国的经济状况、思想斗争、文化变迁、社会状况，描写了近代中国人追求独立的过程。
Author : Robert Bickers,R. G. Tiedemann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742571976
In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multidisciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer War, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and on the foreign imagination. This war introduced the world to the "Boxers," the seemingly fanatical, violent xenophobes who, believing themselves invulnerable to foreign bullets, died in their thousands in front of foreign guns. But 1900 also saw the imperialism of the 1890s checked and the Qing rulers of China move to embark on a series of shattering reforms. The Boxers have often been represented as a force from China's past, resisting an enforced modernity. Here, expert contributors argue that this rebellion was instead a wholly modern resistance to globalizing power, representing new trends in modern China and in international relations. The allied invasion of north China in late summer 1900 was the first multinational intervention in the name of "civilization," with the issues and attendant problems that have become all too familiar in the early twenty-first century. Indeed, understanding the Boxer rising and the Boxer war remains a pressing contemporary issue. This volume will appeal to readers interested in modern Chinese, East Asian, and European history as well as the history of imperialism, colonialism, warfare, missionary work, and Christianity. Contributions by: C. A. Bayly, Lewis Bernstein, Robert Bickers, Paul A. Cohen, Henrietta Harrison, James L. Hevia, Ben Middleton, T. G. Otte, Roger R. Thompson, R. G. Tiedemann, and Anand A. Yang.
