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OPIUM AND EMPIRE: THE LIVES AND CAREERS OF WILLIAM JARDINE By Richard J. Grace
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- ISBN-10
- 0773544526
- Book Title
- Opium and Empire: The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and
- Genre
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- ISBN
- 9780773544529
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Opium and Empire : the Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 26.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 476 Pages
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In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson and Company's aggressive marketing strategies concentrated on the export of teas and the import of opium, sold offshore to Chinese smugglers. Jardine and Matheson, recognized as giants on the scene at Macao, Canton, and Hong Kong, have often been depicted as one-dimensional villains whose opium commerce was ruthless and whose imperial drive was insatiable. In Opium and Empire, Richard Grace explores the depths of each man, their complicated and sometimes inconsistent internal workings, and their achievements and failures. He details their decades-long journeys between Britain and China, their business strategies and standards of conduct, and their inventiveness as gentlemanly capitalists. The commodities they marketed also included cotton, rice, textile goods, and silks and they functioned as agents for clients in India, Britain, Singapore, and Australia. During the First Opium War Jardine was in London giving advice to Lord Palmerston, while Matheson was detained under house arrest at Canton in the spring of 1839, an incident which helped prompt the armed British response. Moving beyond the caricatures of earlier accounts, Opium and Empire tells the story of two Scotsmen whose lives reveal a great deal about the type of tough-minded men who expanded the global markets of Victorian Britain and played major roles in changing the course of modern history in East Asia.
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McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-10
0773544526
ISBN-13
9780773544529
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201504331
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Opium and Empire : the Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
476 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
26.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Hf3524.5
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"By far the most complete narrative on the lives of Matheson and Jardine to date, Opium and Empire adds significantly to our understanding of the period and provides extensive references, many of which appear for the first time in print." Paul A. Van Dyke, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University, and the author of The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845, By far the most complete narrative on the lives of Matheson and Jardine to date, Opium and Empire adds significantly to our understanding of the period and provides extensive references, many of which appear for the first time in print." Paul A. Van Dyke, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University, and the author of The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700–1845
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Commerce, Modern / 19th Century, Asia / China, Historical, Business
Dewey Decimal
382.0941/05109034
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
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