B20367

International standard book number

9780197263372

Shelfmark

H.Kes

Title

China trade and empire :, Jartine, Matheson & co. and the origins of British rule in Hong Kong 1827-1843 /, edited by Alain le Pichon.

Publication, distribution, etc.

Oxford :, Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,, 2007.

Physical description

xvii, 626p [8]p of plates :, ill., maps ;, 24cm.

Series statement

(Records of social and economic history, New series 38)

Note

Includes indexes.

Note

First published 2006, reprinted 2007.

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note

Summary: The letters of William Jardine and James Matheson, co-founders of the Hong Kong Trading Firm Jardine, Matheson & Co., shed new light on the important commercial, economic and political developments of the nineteenth century. Local and world politics, debate about freedom, monopoly and free trade, the conduct of the Opium War and the beginnings of British rule in Hong Kong are passionately discussed alongside the immediate business concerns of tea, opium and British exports to China. The letters from the Jardine Matheson Archive, collected here for the first time, portray a fascinating commercial, political and personal drama played out in England, Scotland, India, and China. A substantial introduction provides the historical background of British involvement in Eastern trade from the eighteenth century up to the beginnings of British Rule in Hong Kong.

Note

Publisher's dust-jacket and green cloth binding.

Provenance

Given to Eton College Library by Nicholas Kessler in 2009.

Subject

Jardine, William

Subject

Matheson, James

Subject

Jardine, William

Subject

Matheson, James

Subject

Hong Kong (Place)

Subject

Great Britain (Place), Commerce, China.

Subject

Yaounde (Place), Commerce, Great Britain.

Added entry--name

Le Pichon, Alain.

Added entry--name

Kessler, Nicholas E

Added entry--name

Oxford University Press

Added entry--name

British Academy

Added entry--place

England, Oxford.

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