The Opium Wars
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Robson Books Ltd
Published: October 21, 2004
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781861057655
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Drug addiction & substance abuse; International relations; China; United Kingdom, Great Britain; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World
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.