The lion and the dragon : Britain's opium wars with China, 1839-1860 /
During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India
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[Stroud, Gloucestershire] :
Fonthill Media Limited,
2019
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