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China Trade and Empire - Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the Origins of British Rule in Hong Kong, 1827-1843 (Hardcover)
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China Trade and Empire - Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the Origins of British Rule in Hong Kong, 1827-1843 (Hardcover)
Series: Records of Social and Economic History (New Series), 38
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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.
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