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The Opium Wars The Addiction Of One Empire And The Corruption Of Another 2004 W Travis Hanes

  • SKU: BELL-2004560
The Opium Wars The Addiction Of One Empire And The Corruption Of Another 2004 W Travis Hanes
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Publisher: Sourcebooks
File Extension: PDF
File size: 1.94 MB
Pages: 352
Author: W. Travis Hanes, Frank Sanello
ISBN: 9781402201493, 1402201494
Language: English
Year: 2004

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The Opium Wars The Addiction Of One Empire And The Corruption Of Another 2004 W Travis Hanes by W. Travis Hanes, Frank Sanello 9781402201493, 1402201494 instant download after payment.

In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug, opium wrought havoc on Chinese society. 

By the early nineteenth century, 90 percent of the Emperor’s court and the majority of the army were opium addicts.Britain was also a nation addicted-to tea, grown in China, and paid for with profits made from the opium trade. When China tried to ban the use of the drug and bar its Western smugglers from it gates, England decided to fight to keep open China’s ports for its importation. England, the superpower of its time, managed to do so in two wars, resulting in a drug-induced devastation of the Chinese people that would last 150 years.

In this page-turning, dramatic and colorful history, The Opium Wars responds to past, biased Western accounts by representing the neglected Chinese version of the story and showing how the wars stand as one of the monumental clashes between the cultures of East and West."A fine popular account."-Publishers Weekly"Their account of the causes, military campaigns and tragic effects of these wars is absorbing, frequently macabre and deeply unsettling."-Booklist

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