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Trading freedom : how trade with China defined early America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Norwood, Dael A. (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Series:American beginnings, 1500-1900.
Subjects:
United States > Commerce > China.
China > Commerce > United States.
United States > Relations > China.
China > Relations > United States.
États-Unis > Commerce > Chine.
HISTORY > General.
Commerce.
International relations.
China.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: America's Business with China
  • Chapter One. Founding a Free, Trading Republic
  • Chapter Two. The Paradox of a Pacific Policy
  • Chapter Three. Troubled Waters
  • Chapter Four. Sovereign Rights, or America's First Opium Problem
  • Chapter Five. The Empire's New Roads
  • Chapter Six. This Slave Trade of the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter Seven. A Propped- Open Door
  • Chapter Eight. Death of a Trade, Birth of a Market
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Accounting for the China Trade
  • Notes
  • Index