TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grace,Richard J.
TI  - Opium and empire: the lives and careers of William Jardine and James Matheson 
SN  - 9780773596818
AV  - HF486 .O658 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Montreal, Kingston, London, Ithaca
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Jardine, Matheson & Co
KW  - History
KW  - Businesspeople
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Businessmen
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Prelude: The Scotland of Their Birth --; 1 Origins --; 2 Sailing from London to Canton --; 3 The Sirens of Commerce --; 4 The Heirs of Cox and Beale --; 5 Doing Business at Creek Hong --; 6 Charting New Waters --; 7 The Partners Apart --; 8 Approaching the Showdown in China --; 9 Jardine's Farewell and Matheson's Great Headache --; 10 Jardine's and Matheson's Roles in the Opium War --; 11 Their Lives after China --; 12 Sir James Matheson, Laird of Lewis --; Postlude: Gentlemanly Capitalists?; 2; b
N2  - In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. This book explores the depths of each man, their complicated and sometimes inconsistent internal workings, and their achievements and failures
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