British Trade and the Opening of China, 1800-42 (Cambridge Studies in Economic History Series)

xii, 238pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Sun faded spine, Top text block edge and of covers sun faded. Internally neat, clear, bright and tight. 8vo. Gives an account of the activities of British merchants in China in the crucial years before the Treaty of Nanking (1842), which transformed the relations between the Celestial Empire and the Western 'barbarians', placing them on a footing that was to last for 100 years.