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Canton Days
Author | : John M. Carroll |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2020-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781538136300 |
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Canton Days offers the first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842. During that period, Britons and other Westerners in China were restricted to trading and living in a tiny section of the city of Canton and the small Portuguese territory of Macao. At Canton, trade between China and the West was conducted through a group of Chinese merchant houses specially licensed by the Qing government. British encounters with China in this period have been seen mainly as a prelude to war, and Britons in China usually have been characterized as single-minded traders determined to open the Middle Kingdom by any means or missionaries bent on converting the Chinese “heathen” to Christianity. John M. Carroll challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China as he traces the lives and times of the expatriates at the heart of this vital center of trade and exchange. The author draws on a rich trove of archival sources to bring Canton and its leading figures to life, concluding with the deaths of three Britons, each revealing British concerns and anxieties about being in China. Written in a clear and lively style, his book will appeal to all readers interested in British imperial history, early modern Chinese history, and the worlds of expatriate and sojourning communities.
Old and New
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Liberalism (Religion) |
ISBN | : PSU:000052381300 |
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Treaties and Tariffs Regulating the Trade Between Great Britain and Foreign Nations
Author | : Sir Edward Hertslet |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Favored nation clause |
ISBN | : OXFORD:N11102298 |
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Treaties and Tariffs Regulating the Trade Between Great Britain and Foreign Nations Turkey
Author | : Sir Edward Hertslet |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Favored nation clause |
ISBN | : OXFORD:N11102300 |
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Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia
Author | : American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Catholics |
ISBN | : PRNC:32101019244738 |
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Canton s Pioneers in Flight
Author | : Kimberly A. Kenney |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738525227 |
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Canton boasts a rich aviation heritage, reaching back to the earliest pioneers of flight. Local resident Frank S. Lahm founded the Aero Club of Ohio here and his son Frank P. Lahm worked with the Wright brothers on some of their earliest test flights. William Martin's monoplane, the first single-wing airplane in the world, was invented here. Other Canton firsts include Martin's wife Almina, the world's first female airplane pilot; Bernetta Miller, one of the first women to earn a pilot's license; and Louise Timken, the first woman to own and operate a private jet. The Timken Company developed a steel alloy here that allowed planes to fly at higher altitudes.
Canton s West Lawn Cemetery
Author | : Kimberly A. Kenney |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738533092 |
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Canton's West Lawn Cemetery is best known as the original burial site of President William McKinley, who was assassinated in 1901. But, it is also the final resting place of thousands of Canton citizens, including some of the most influential and famous residents in the city's history. Names like "Boss" Hoover, H.H. Timken, and John Saxton stand out among the gravestones. Canton's industrialists, inventors, politicians, and entrepreneurs who are buried here left legacies such as hospitals, companies, buildings, and one of the oldest newspapers in Ohio. Cemeteries are important links to our past, and Canton's West Lawn Cemetery explores Canton's own history through the stories of these interred citizens.
The Pacific Telegraph and Railway
Author | : John Loughborough |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Pacific railroads |
ISBN | : NWU:35556041950601 |
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