Narratives of free trade [[electronic resource] ] : the commercial cultures of early US-China relations / / edited by Kendall Johnson

• Pubblicazione: Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Disciplina: 382.09
• Soggetto topico: Economic history
• Soggetto geografico: United States Commerce China History 18th century; China Commerce United States History 18th century; United States Commerce China History 19th century; China Commerce United States History 19th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: JohnsonKendall L
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Narratives of free trade
• ISBN: 988-220-927-0; 988-8053-90-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461073403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Global connections.