The Chinese Opium Wars

by Jack Beeching

Book Overview

An enlightening account of a notorious period in nineteenth-century imperialism, when an effort by the Chinese government to stamp out the country's profitable opium trade resulted in a series of conflicts known as the Opium Wars. Index; illustrations and map.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151176507
• ISBN13: 9780151176502
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.