When America First Met China

Informationen zum Autor Eric Jay Dolin  is the best-selling and award-winning author of numerous works in maritime history, including Leviathan , Rebels at Sea , and Black Flags, Blue Waters . He lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Klappentext Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China. Indeed, the furious trade in furs, opium, and bêche-de-mer-a rare sea cucumber delicacy-might have catalyzed America's emerging economy, but it also sparked an ecological and human rights catastrophe of such epic proportions that the reverberations can still be felt today. Peopled with fascinating characters-from the "Financier of the Revolution" Robert Morris to the Chinese emperor Qianlong, who considered foreigners inferior beings-this page-turning saga of pirates and politicians, coolies and concubines becomes a must-read for any fan of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower or Mark Kurlansky's Cod. Zusammenfassung Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers! sea pirates! and dueling clipper ships.

Product details

• Authors: Eric J. Dolin, Eric Jay Dolin, Dolin Eric Jay
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.2012
• EAN: 9780871404336
• ISBN: 978-0-87140-433-6
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 243 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book; USA, China, History: specific events & topics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / Asia / China, United States of America, USA, History: specific events and topics, Asian History, History of the Americas, International Trade, International trade and commerce