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Mr. Smith goes to China : three Scots in the making of Britain's global empire
Title:
Mr. Smith goes to China : three Scots in the making of Britain's global empire

Three Scots in the making of Britain's global empire.
Author:
Hanser, Jessica.
ISBN:
9780300236088
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Publication Information:
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2019.
Physical Description:
xiii, 240 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:
George Smith timelines -- Introduction -- 1. Tea and finance -- 2. George Smith of Madras -- 3. George Smith of Canton -- 4. Financial crisis -- 5. George Smith of Bombay and the 'Lady Hughes' affair -- 6. Mission to China -- Epilogue : The legacies of the three George Smiths -- Eighteenth-century currency equivalents.
Abstract:
"An illuminating account of global commerce in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders. This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders--George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras--and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner workings of Britain's imperial expansion and global network of trade, revealing how an unstable credit system and a financial crisis ultimately led to greater British intervention in India and China."--Back cover.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-226) and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 10900655 10902056 (c. 2) HF3508 C5 H249 ysh
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