Opium and Empire
Subtitle: The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780773544529
Subjects: Jardine, matheson and company, ltd.; Businesspeople, biography; Great britain, commerce; China, commerce; China, history, 19th century
Description: In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. This book explores the depths of each man, their complicated and sometimes inconsistent internal workings, and their achievements and failures.