The Opium Wars
Subtitle: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781402201493
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Crime & criminology; War & defence operations; c 1800 to c 1900; Military - Other; History; History - Military / War; History: World; China; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Modern - 19th Century; Asia - China; Europe - Great Britain - General
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.