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When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail - Softcover

Dolin, Eric Jay

 
9780871406897: When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0871406896 ISBN 13: 9780871406897
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China. Indeed, the furious trade in furs, opium, and bêche-de-mer—a rare sea cucumber delicacy—might have catalyzed America’s emerging economy, but it also sparked an ecological and human rights catastrophe of such epic proportions that the reverberations can still be felt today. Peopled with fascinating characters—from the “Financier of the Revolution” Robert Morris to the Chinese emperor Qianlong, who considered foreigners inferior beings—this page-turning saga of pirates and politicians, coolies and concubines becomes a must-read for any fan of Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower or Mark Kurlansky’s Cod.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eric Jay Dolin is the best-selling and award-winning author of numerous works in maritime history, including Leviathan, Rebels at Sea, and Black Flags, Blue Waters. He lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

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Verlag
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0871406896
ISBN 13 
9780871406897
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
394
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