Trade through the Himalayas; the early British attempts to open Tibet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cammann, Schuyler V. R. (Schuyler Van Rensselaer)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--History.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Commerce.

Physical Description:

x, 186 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, [1970, c1951]

Summary:

After 1750, various factors closed Tibet to access from India. This monograph recounts the attempts of the British to revive the flagging economy of Bengal, depressed by the famine of 1770, by extending the trade of the East India Company into Tibet and West China.

Notes:

"The writer's Ph.D. thesis at Johns Hopkins University ... extensively revised."

Bibliography: pages 165-179.

ISBN:

0837132606

OCLC:

80815