Narratives of free trade / edited by Kendall Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Kendall L., editor.

Series:

Global connections.

Global connections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

United States--Commerce--China--History--18th century.

United States.

China--Commerce--United States--History--18th century.

China.

United States--Commerce--China--History--19th century.

China--Commerce--United States--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages).

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2012.

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through engaging interdisciplinary analysis of commercial themes, this book interprets under-appreciated interactions between China and a very young United States in the first decades after the American Revolutionary War. With its attention to visual culture, Narratives of Free Trade yields a fresh interpretation of documents that are crucial to understanding the evolving relationship between two of the twenty-first century's superpowers.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction - Revising First Impressions; 1 - Bookkeeping as a Window into Efficiencies of Early Modern Trade; 2 - A Question of Character; Plates 1.1-1.9; 3 - China of the American Imagination; 4 - Russell and Company and the Imperialism of Anglo-American Free Trade; 5 - Chopsticks or Cutlery?; Plates 2.1-; 6 - Representing Macao in 1837; 7 - The Face of Diplomacy in Nineteenth-Century China; 8 - To Make a Way; 9 - The Flow of the Traders' Goddess; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789882209275

9882209270

9789888053902

9888053906

OCLC:

814551431