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Brian Inglis
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1839. Trade is the stalwart of the British Empire. China threatens Britain's Opium trade. Britain and China go to war.
When Britain sent troops to compel the Chinese to accept imports of opium, they opened what is argued to be one of the most disgraceful chapters in the history of the Empire.
How did the situation arise? How did opium exports become so crucial to the British economy? How did the British come to be as addicted to opium revenue as the Chinese were to the drug itself?
Brian Inglis gives the answers to these and other questions in this meticulously researched study of The Opium War. Shocking, shaming, but fascinating throughout.
©1976 Brian Inglis (P)2021 TantorLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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The 19th century saw the rise of one of the largest, most powerful empires of the modern era. The sun never set on the British Empire, whose holdings spanned the globe, in one form or another, and trade flowed east and west. An integral but underutilized part of a vast trade network included China. The Opium Wars: The History and Legacy of the 19th Century Conflicts Between Britain and China examines the way in which trade, colonialism, and illegal drug use culminated with one of the 19th century’s most controversial fights.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Perfect summary- not too short or long
- De Margaret Pierce en 06-09-23
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Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931-1941
- War in the Far East Series, Book 1
- De: Peter Harmsen
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-standing geopolitics are taken into account. Harmsen demonstrates how Japan and China's ancient enmity led to increased tensions in the 1930s, which, in turn, exploded into conflict in 1937.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Story
- De Coach Mark en 03-25-23
De: Peter Harmsen
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Six Battles for India
- Anglo-Sikh Wars, 1845-46 and 1848-49 (Conflicts of Empire Series)
- De: George Bruce
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
By the end of the nineteenth century, India was described as the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, but how did such a small island come to dominate one of the richest lands in the world? Without doubt the toughest opponents to British control was led by the Sikhs. Ranjit Singh, the brilliant "Lion of Punjab" who ruled the Sikh Empire, had revolutionized his army by employing French officers from Napoleon's Grand Army to train his artillery and infantry on the European model.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Accessible military history, well worth it.
- De Troy en 10-05-22
De: George Bruce
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Three Tigers, One Mountain
- A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
- De: Michael Booth
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 159
There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought-provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, the enmity is between these three "tiger" nations and what prevents them from making peace.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not much new here if you are already familiar
- De Neil Richert en 07-13-20
De: Michael Booth
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
- China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
- De: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrado por: Angela Lin
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 194
Stephen R. Platt is widely respected for his incisive nonfiction, particularly in regard to his knowledge and understanding of China. With Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, Platt details the absorbing narrative of the Taiping Rebellion, which resulted in the loss of 20 million lives. Occurring in the 1850s, this is the story of a cultural movement characterized by intriguing personages such as influential military strategist Zeng Guofan and brilliant Taiping leader Hong Rengan.
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3 out of 5 stars
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InTOLerable Reader
- De Adam en 07-07-12
De: Stephen R. Platt
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- De: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 890
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 755
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 751
As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to "open" China even as China's imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country's decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China's advantage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Balanced readable narrative about the Opium Wars
- De Carl A. Gallozzi en 09-05-18
De: Stephen R. Platt
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Empire of Sand
- How Britain Made the Middle East
- De: Walter Reid
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15
Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain's role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948, when Britain handed over Palestine to United Nations' control. From the decisions that Britain made has flowed much of the instability of the region and of the worldwide tensions that threaten the twenty-first century; this thought-provoking book considers how much Britain was to blame.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's a must read.
- De Eduardo Gimenez en 03-22-25
De: Walter Reid
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- De: Herbert P. Bix
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 29 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what I bargained for
- De Alexander Crowell en 08-21-20
De: Herbert P. Bix
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The Last Manchu
- The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
- De: Paul Kramer, Henry Pu Yi
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
In 1908, at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for 13 years in Peking’s Forbidden City, but with none of the power his birth afforded him. The remainder of Pu Yi’s life was lived out in a topsy-turvy fashion: fleeing from a Chinese warlord, becoming head of a Japanese puppet state, being confined to a Russian prison in Siberia, and enduring taxing labor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Marvelous and Ultimately Sad Memoir
- De Sparkly en 08-08-13
De: Paul Kramer, y otros
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Defending Heaven
- China's Mongol Wars, 1209-1370
- De: James Waterson, John Man - Foreword
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 17
Defending Heaven brings together, for the first time in one volume, a complete history of the Jin, Song, and Ming dynasties' wars fought against the Mongols. Lasting nearly two centuries, these wars, fought to defend Chinese civilization against a brutal and unrelenting foe, pitted personal heroics against the inexorable Mongol war machine and involved every part of the Chinese state.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I struggled to keep track of all the names, but I
- De Stef en 04-04-24
De: James Waterson, y otros
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Emperor of Japan
- Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
- De: Donald Keene
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 38 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Little has been written about the strangely obscured figure of Meiji himself, the first Japanese emperor ever to meet a European. But now, Donald Keene sifts the available evidence to present a rich portrait not only of Meiji but also of rapid and sometimes violent change during this pivotal period in Japan's history. Emperor of Japan conveys in sparkling prose the complexity of the man and offers an unrivaled portrait of Japan in a period of unique interest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book. Terrible narration.
- De Ken Snyder en 07-05-23
De: Donald Keene
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Opium
- A History
- De: Martin Booth
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcotic. Opium: A History traces the drug's astounding impact on world culture - from its religious use by prehistoric peoples to its influence on the imaginations of the Romantic writers; from the earliest medical science to the Sino-British opium wars.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GREAT SUMMARY, WELL READ
- De Aidan en 01-21-20
De: Martin Booth
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The Hundred Years War
- The English in France 1337-1453
- De: Desmond Seward
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 182
From 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those "100 years" won the battles, sacked the towns and castles, and dominated the war. Desmond Seward's critically acclaimed account of the Hundred Years War brings to life all of the intrigue, beauty, and royal to-the-death-fighting of that legendary century-long conflict.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb narrator and fascintating history
- De Julie Seavello en 05-30-21
De: Desmond Seward
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A Splendid Exchange
- How Trade Shaped the World
- De: William J. Bernstein
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 398
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 263
In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies surrounding it today. He transports listeners from ancient sailing ships that brought the silk trade from China to Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly in spices in the 16th.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting and Germane to Today's World
- De Mark en 07-18-08
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The Scythians
- Nomad Warriors of the Steppe
- De: Barry Cunliffe
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 136
The Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions between the nomads and their neighbours. The Scythians fought the Persians on a number of occasions, in one battle killing their king and on another occasion driving the invading army of Darius the Great from the steppe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Well researched but narrator is terrible
- De John M. en 01-17-21
De: Barry Cunliffe
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Bring the War Home
- The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
- De: Kathleen Belew
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 647
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 559
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 553
The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out - with military precision - an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The reader sounds like a robot
- De C. Fox en 05-12-19
De: Kathleen Belew
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Opium War
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- michaelfaisalgreen
- 06-01-24
Very thorough analysis of a complex period without unguided judgement - providing an inform opinion without being opinionated.
Could have perhaps had a little more context with regard to British expansionism and how that preceded the war
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- MissiveDuTexas
- 05-18-23
Prohibition is profitable
For those unconcerned by the laws of the elite, imposed on the plebs, prohibition is a very lucrative endeavor. The British empire has known that for centuries...
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- Mike
- 03-14-24
Excellent book
This was my favorite book about the opium war on audible. The book is really a history of the East India Company and 19th century British government policy in Asia. A great deal of Indian and colonial history is found in the book. A history of the parliamentary debates that led up to the Opium war is also found in the book. If you are a fan of Victoria era British colonial history then you will love this book. If you are looking for a book that focuses more on the Chinese perspective you may be disappointed.
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- Jeff Shreve
- 04-06-21
booooooorrrrrriiiiing
not sure how but the writer managed to make this very interesting topic boring. I gave up after a few hours and the revelation I was not paying attention at all anymore... the narrator mentioned lord whaling, a character featured in the first third of the book.... I realized I didn't know who that was because in had snored off too many times
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