The review focuses on the extraordinary role played by Scottish traders Jardine and Matheson, giants on the scene at Macao, Canton and Hong Kong during the First Opium War, and highlights the importance of the study in object to bring to light hitherto invisible networks of collusion across the British Empire.
Richard J. Grace, Opium and Empire: The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson, Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press 2014
Sassi,C.
2018-01-01
Abstract
The review focuses on the extraordinary role played by Scottish traders Jardine and Matheson, giants on the scene at Macao, Canton and Hong Kong during the First Opium War, and highlights the importance of the study in object to bring to light hitherto invisible networks of collusion across the British Empire.
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