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Merchants of Deceit: Opium, American Fortune & the China Trade, Friswell Richard


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Автор: Friswell Richard
Название:  Merchants of Deceit: Opium, American Fortune & the China Trade
ISBN: 9780996616966
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
Издательство: Bookbaby
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ISBN-10: 0996616969
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 300
Вес: 0.47 кг.
Дата издания: 06.01.2022
Серия: History
Язык: English
Размер: 188 x 208 x 8
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: Asian history
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Описание: In the early 19th century, Middletown, Connecticuts waterfront was a busy, international shipping port, rivaling New York, Providence and Newport. It was ideally located twenty-six miles upriver from danger-prone Atlantic waters, and central to the ports principal function: shipping much needed goods to-and-from destinations in the West Indies, home of large White-owned sugar plantations and their enslaved workers. Into this burgeoning New England waterfront scene, Samuel Russell was born, in 1789. Purportedly the son and grandson of ship captains, Russell lived with his extended family just blocks from the riverfront. Russells father died in 1811, when he was just twelve, leaving him, as the eldest boy, to fend for himself and his family on the streets and docks of this town of 5400 residents. Most men in those days were destined for a life of farming. But, for Sam Russell, modern times and unique circumstances of his coming-of-age in this riverfront community took a very different-and life-changing-turn. The bridge between the 18th and 19th centuries marked the corresponding birth of a new American nation and emergence of the Industrial Age. Ideally, the nascent United States, emboldened by a credo of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, had the resources and desire to benefit from the riches of European markets. Living and working in this busy riverfront community, and with a familys sea-going legacy, together with personal qualities, later documented by a peer, of honesty, integrity, and reliability, soon earned Russell (in his twenties) a European-bound trading assignment. In 1819, after two successful European trips, his employer directed him, as an agent, to repeat the European venture, then sail directly to Canton, China, at the head of the Pearl River, using sales proceeds to set up a trading company. Following a three-month voyage, he would join other Western interests, principally the English, in a location there called, the Thirteen Factories. The objective: selling New England-made goods and produce to the Chinese, in exchange for tea, silks and porcelain. The problem was, the Chinese-long an isolated and self-sufficient nation-werent interested. After a concerted effort, spanning several months, Russell eventual chose a more controversial, but highly profitable route for his new entity, Russell & Co. Writing to his partners in Providence, noting the success of the British East India Company in their wealth-building dealings with local merchants and Cantonese brokers, he notified them of his decision to also deal in opium. The change in strategy was straight forward. First, sail to Turkey or India, where cotton goods were in demand. Trade for local opium and proceed to China, where there was a limitless and eager clientele for opium. Use the proceeds to purchase silks, tea, and porcelain, then head home to place those goods on sale, sometimes right at dockside. Then repeat. This work of historical fiction explores the moral and ethical choices made in a place and time when opium was not illegal but regarded as damaging to a nations productivity and well-being. Colonialism, racial and ethnic bias, and the absence of international regulations had opened many doors for Western businessmen. Merchants of Deceit explores many of these themes, as told through the first-hand perspective of Samuel Russell, rising to prominence in Canton, China, as he unwittingly redirected the course of world history.


AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire: The Deadly Virus of International Greed

Автор: Nancy Turner Banks M. D.
Название: AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire: The Deadly Virus of International Greed
ISBN: 1450201717 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781450201711
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Описание: It is a mistake to think that wars only concern armies involved in active engagement. Nothing is farther from the truth. The real forces of evil wage a financial war. The dark princes of debt finance have gained leverage over every important social, economic, and political institution-including the health care delivery system.

In AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire, author Nancy Turner Banks draws the connections between free market strategies, the destruction of national sovereignty by the process of globalization, and AIDS as one of the health consequences of a neo-Darwinian philosophy. Through meticulous research, Banks found a medicalpharmaceutical- industrial complex that was taken over one hundred years ago by the titans of financial capitalism. Their aim was to create profit, not to conquer disease. This book of social history points to a cauldron of historical events that contributed to the HIV/AIDS crisis.

AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire tells the dramatic story of a financial ideology that is damaging to everything that it means to be human. It is the story of profits over people. In the end, it is the story of hope and how we can regain our sanity and our health in a world gone mad.

Treason by Lies, Deceit and Fraud: The International Banking and Legal Conspiracy Against America

Автор: Blackwell Mike
Название: Treason by Lies, Deceit and Fraud: The International Banking and Legal Conspiracy Against America
ISBN: 1947360205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781947360204
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The U.S. Congress has been assembling unlawfully since 1861. That's right Since 1861, martial (military) law has prevailed in the United States.

Since then, international bankers and members of the bar association have conspired to take control of America. In Treason By Lies, Deceit and Fraud, Mike Blackwell states

  • Abraham Lincoln ignored the Constitution by convening Congress under military law . . . and the precedent has continued to this day.
  • The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a privately owned corporation organized under the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia.
  • The US legal profession is actually governed by the British Accredited Registry in London, England in conjunction with the Vatican for their own financial profit and control.
  • Every US citizen is by law a slave of the corporate state known as the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

The original government formed by our founding fathers was unincorporated. Why is it incorporated now? Does this matter? Absolutely

Learn how the American people lost their freedom and how they can regain it again.

Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

Автор: White Richard
Название: Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
ISBN: 1324004339 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781324004332
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how and why

Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China

Автор: Wu Yulian
Название: Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China
ISBN: 0804798117 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804798112
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From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China. How and why did these businessmen devote themselves to these items? What can we learn about eighteenth-century China by examining the relationship between merchants and objects?

Luxurious Networks examines Huizhou salt merchants in the material world of High Qing China to reveal a dynamic interaction between people and objects. The Qianlong emperor purposely used objects to expand his influence in economic and cultural fields. Thanks to their broad networks, outstanding managerial skills, and abundant financial resources, these salt merchants were ideal agents for selecting and producing objects for imperial use. In contrast to the typical caricature of merchants as mimics of the literati, these wealthy businessmen became respected individuals who played a crucial role in the political, economic, social, and cultural world of eighteenth-century China. Their life experiences illustrate the dynamic relationship between the Manchu and Han, central and local, and humans and objects in Chinese history.

Fur, Fashion and Transatlantic Trade during the Seventeenth Century: Chesapeake Bay Native Hunters, Colonial Rivalries and London Merchants

Автор: John C. Appleby
Название: Fur, Fashion and Transatlantic Trade during the Seventeenth Century: Chesapeake Bay Native Hunters, Colonial Rivalries and London Merchants
ISBN: 1783275790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783275793
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: Offers insight, using the example of the Chesapeake Bay fur trade, into how the different elements of transatlantic trade in the seventeenth century fitted together.

Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants

Автор: Vanneste Tijl
Название: Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants
ISBN: 1848930879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848930872
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century. All the traders examined in this study are outsiders: an English Catholic in Antwerp, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews in London and Amsterdam and French Huguenots in Lisbon.

Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe

Автор: Miriam Eliav-Feldon; Tamar Herzig
Название: Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 1137447486 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137447487
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographical discoveries and of forced conversions: from two-faced conversos to serial converts, from demoniacs to stigmatics, and from self-appointed ambassadors to lying cosmographer.

Depredation and Deceit: The Making of the Jicarilla and Ute Wars in New Mexico

Автор: Michno Gregory
Название: Depredation and Deceit: The Making of the Jicarilla and Ute Wars in New Mexico
ISBN: 0806157690 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806157696
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Trade and Intercourse Acts passed by Congress between 1796 and 1834 set up a system for individuals to receive monetary compensation from the federal government for property stolen or destroyed by American Indians. By the end of the Mexican-American War, both Anglo-Americans and Nuevomexicanos became experts in exploiting this system - and in using the army to collect on their often-fraudulent claims. As Gregory F. Michno reveals in Depredation and Deceit, their combined efforts created a precarious mix of false accusations, public greed, and fabricated fear that directly led to new wars in the American Southwest between 1849 and 1855. Tasked with responding to white settlers' depredation claims and gaining restitution directly from Indian groups, soldiers typically had no choice but to search out often-innocent Indians and demand compensation or the surrender of the guilty party, turning once-friendly bands into enemy groups whenever these tense encounters exploded in violence. As the situation became more volatile, citizens demanded a greater army presence in the region, and lucrative military contracts became yet another reason to encourage the continuation of frontier violence. Although the records are replete with officers questioning accusations and discovering civilians' deceit, more often than not the army was forced to act in direct counterpoint to its duties as a constabulary force. And whenever war broke out, the acquisition of more Indian land and wealth began the cycle of greed and violence all over again. The Trade and Intercourse Acts were manipulated by Anglo-Americans who ensured the continuation of the very conflicts that they claimed to abhor and that the acts were designed to prevent. In bringing these machinations to light, Michno's book deepens - and darkens - our understanding of the conquest of the American Southwest.


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