Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong-based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society.
Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong-based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Thomas M. Larkin is assistant professor of the history of the United States of America and the world at the University of Prince Edward Island.
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Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Currencies List of Abbreviations Glossary of People Glossary of Terms Introduction: An American Firm, a British Colony, and a Global Microhistory 1. A Very Profitable Crisis: Canton's American Merchants on the Eve of the First Opium War 2. A House Is Not a Home: The American Merchant House in Hong Kong 3. Lives Lived in Public: American Encounters with British Colonial Society 4. Missed Opportunities: Balancing Metropolitan Politics and Private Interests in China 5. Friends Near and Far: Creating and Maintaining Global Networks Through Hong Kong 6. Wealth or Expertise: The Social and Professional Paths of Returned American Merchants Conclusion: Lives of Consequence Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Currencies List of Abbreviations Glossary of People Glossary of Terms Introduction: An American Firm, a British Colony, and a Global Microhistory 1. A Very Profitable Crisis: Canton's American Merchants on the Eve of the First Opium War 2. A House Is Not a Home: The American Merchant House in Hong Kong 3. Lives Lived in Public: American Encounters with British Colonial Society 4. Missed Opportunities: Balancing Metropolitan Politics and Private Interests in China 5. Friends Near and Far: Creating and Maintaining Global Networks Through Hong Kong 6. Wealth or Expertise: The Social and Professional Paths of Returned American Merchants Conclusion: Lives of Consequence Notes Bibliography Index
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