Mr. Smith goes to China : three Scots in the making of Britain's global empire
Jessica Hanser
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
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| Omfang | xiii, 240 sider : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | George Smith timelines -- Introduction -- 1. Tea and finance -- 2. George Smith of Madras -- 3. George Smith of Canton -- 4. Financial crisis -- 5. George Smith of Bombay and the Lady Hughes affair -- 6. Mission to China -- Epilogue : the legacies of the three George Smiths -- Eighteenth-century currency equivalents.. - "An illuminating account of global commerce in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders. This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders--George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras--and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner workings of Britain's imperial expansion and global network of trade, revealing how an unstable credit system and a financial crisis ultimately led to greater British intervention in India and China."-- Bokens bakside
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| ISBN | 9780300236088
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