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Free trade's first missionary [electronic resource] : Sir John Bowring in Europe and Asia / Philip Bowring.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 2015); Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xii, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :) illustrations (some color)ISBN:
  • 9789888268849
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleLOC classification:
  • DA565.B675 B684 2014
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Contents:
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Exeter lad's radical roots -- War, Spain and the Unitarians -- Bentham's favourite son -- A poisonous Greek pie -- Polyglot poet meets Kubla Khan -- Reforming politics and public accounts -- The new gospel : free trade -- Of Egypt and Levantine plagues -- Bolton : pit of poverty and progress -- Progressive MP coins the florin -- An ironmaster derails -- Opiate of various peoples -- Frustration at Canton -- Some progress on the China coast -- Arrow ploy sunk by ye -- The War of Two Bruces -- Hong Kong : good input, little output -- High-minded humiliation -- The king and he : a lasting legacy -- Philippine fiesta -- A new wife and energy to the end -- Conclusion : why he matters -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-262).

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Exeter lad's radical roots -- War, Spain and the Unitarians -- Bentham's favourite son -- A poisonous Greek pie -- Polyglot poet meets Kubla Khan -- Reforming politics and public accounts -- The new gospel : free trade -- Of Egypt and Levantine plagues -- Bolton : pit of poverty and progress -- Progressive MP coins the florin -- An ironmaster derails -- Opiate of various peoples -- Frustration at Canton -- Some progress on the China coast -- Arrow ploy sunk by ye -- The War of Two Bruces -- Hong Kong : good input, little output -- High-minded humiliation -- The king and he : a lasting legacy -- Philippine fiesta -- A new wife and energy to the end -- Conclusion : why he matters -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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