When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail

Title: When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail Author: Dolin, Eric Jay ISBN: 9780871406897 Publisher: Liveright Published: 2013 Binding: Book Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. American History 1421513 Publisher Description: Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China. Indeed, the furious trade in furs, opium, and beche-de-mer--a ra