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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS British Trade And The Opening Of China 1800-42 by Michael Greenberg
An account of the activities of British merchants in China in the crucial years before the Treaty of Nanking 1842, which transformed the relations between the Celestial Empire and the Western barbarians and placed them upon a footing that was to last for 100 years. Mr Greenberg shows how this change was brought about by the pressures of the expanding British economy of the early nineteenth century. Much of the material is based on the papers of Jardine Matheson and Co., the only firm of pre-treaty days to survive, and the largest of the British firms then established in Canton.show more