The new Middle Kingdom : China and the early American romance of free trade /
"In the imaginations of early Americans, the Middle Kingdom was the wealthiest empire in the world. Its geographical distance did not deter commercial aspirations--rather, it inspired them. Starting in the late eighteenth century, merchants from New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Salem, Newport, a...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2017.
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Obsah:
- Introduction: China and the American Romances of Free Trade
- Characterizing the American China Trader : The Global Geography of Opium Traffic in Josiah Quincy's The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw (1847)
- Captain Amasa Delano, Slavery, and Melville's Dollar Signs of the Canton Trade
- The Troubled Romance in Harriett Low's Picturesque Macao : Transnational Family Fortunes and the Rise of Russell & Company
- The Sacred Fount of the ABCFM : Free Press, Free Trade, and Extraterritorial Printing in China
- Caleb Cushing's Print Trail of Legal Extraterritoriality : A Confederated Christendom of Commerce, from the Far East to the Far West
- Extraterritorial Burial and the Visual Aesthetics of Free Trade Imperialism in Commodore Matthew Perry's Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan (1856-1857)
- Passages to India from the Newly United States : Revising The Middle Kingdom (1883).