The Lion and the Dragon
Britain's opium wars with China 1839-1860
- ISBN: 9781781557174
- Editorial: Fonthill Media
- Fecha de la edición: 2019
- Lugar de la edición: Stroud. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 272
- Idiomas: Inglés
Papel: Cartoné
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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.
