Lovell Julia: The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: 'A gripping read as well as an important one.' Rana Mitter, Guardian In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past hundred and seventy years, this strange tale of…