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.

• | By (Author): Mark Simner
• | Publisher: Fonthill Media Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jun 20, 2019
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1781557179
• | ISBN-13: 9781781557174