The Opium Wars
Subtitle: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781570719318
Subjects: History: World; Opium War, 1840-1842; History; Europe - Great Britain - General; History - Military / War; Modern - 19th Century; Military - Other; China; Asia - China; Foreign intervention, 1857-186; Foreign intervention, 1857-1861
First sentence: By 1860, Great Britain had reached a military, literary, and artistic ascendancy not seen in the Western world perhaps since Suetonius's Rome.