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The Opium War, 1840-1842

Author: Peter Ward Fay
Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This work tells the story of the first Opium War between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in  Read more...

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Genre/Form: History
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Ward Fay
ISBN: 0807847143 9780807847145
OCLC Number: 60191637
Notes: Winner of the 1975 AHA Pacific Coast Branch Annual Award and winner of a 1975 Silver Medal, Commonwealth Club of California.
Description: 440 pages : 6 maps, notes, index
Responsibility: Peter Ward Fay (Professor Emeritus of History, California Institute of Technology, USA).

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The work is rich in detail and made richer still by the author's forceful and robust writing style."American Historical Review" "Peter Ward Fay has produced a classic study in "The Opium War, Read more...

 
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