Book contents
- Ruling the World
- Ruling the World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I 1838: The Year of Freedom
- 1 Setting the Scene for Emancipation
- 2 Managing Expectations
- 3 Political Freedom
- 4 Settler Liberties
- 5 Free Trade, Famine and Invasion
- 6 Steam and Opium
- Conclusion to Part I: An Empire of Freedom?
- Part II 1857: The Year of Civilisation
- Part III 1879: The Year of Liberalism
- Appendix: Cast of Characters
- Notes
- Index
- References
6 - Steam and Opium
from Part I - 1838: The Year of Freedom
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2020
Book contents
- Ruling the World
- Ruling the World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I 1838: The Year of Freedom
- 1 Setting the Scene for Emancipation
- 2 Managing Expectations
- 3 Political Freedom
- 4 Settler Liberties
- 5 Free Trade, Famine and Invasion
- 6 Steam and Opium
- Conclusion to Part I: An Empire of Freedom?
- Part II 1857: The Year of Civilisation
- Part III 1879: The Year of Liberalism
- Appendix: Cast of Characters
- Notes
- Index
- References
Summary
Steam power, railways and steamships; communications with India via Suez; the opium trade and Canton; the First Opium War.
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- Ruling the WorldFreedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire, pp. 168 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Further Reading
Chung, T., ‘The Britain-China-India Trade Triangle (1771–1840)’, Indian Economic History Review, XI, 1974, 426–7.Google Scholar
Lovell, J., The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China, Picador, 2011.Google Scholar
Mao, H., The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty, Cambridge University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Richards, J. F., ‘The Indian Empire and Peasant Production of Opium in the Nineteenth Century’, Modem Asian Studies, 15, 1, 1981, 59–82.Google Scholar
Semmel, B., The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism: Classical Political Economy the Empire of Free Trade and Imperialism, 1750–1850, Cambridge University Press, 1970.Google Scholar