British Opium Policy in China and India
Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1968. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; ix, 399 pp. VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are otherwise clean.). Item #185039
Contents: A historical introduction -- The establishment of the monopoly in Bengal -- The early trade at Canton -- The monopoly under the company -- The trade at the outer anchorages -- The crisis of 1839 -- The opium question in China, 1840-1856 -- Legalization -- Opium and treaty revision -- The Indian opium system under the crown -- The anti-opium movement and the royal commission -- The ending of the trade. "This study was originally submitted as a doctoral dissertation [Yale University, 1927]."
OCLC: 435204
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