Opium, Soldiers and Evangelicals: England's 1840-42 War with China and Its Aftermath

by Harry G. Gelber

Book Overview

This book questions the universal belief that England's 1840-42 war with China was an 'Opium War'. What really worried London was 'insults to the crown', the claim of a dilapidated and corrupt China to be superior to everyone, threats to British men and women and seizure of British property, plus the wish to expand and free trade everywhere. It was only much later that general Chinese resentment and Evangelical opinion at home - and in America - persuaded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349510378
• ISBN13: 9781349510375
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"