Mr. Smith Goes to China : Three Scots in the Making of Britain's Global Empire
(2022)
By:
Hanser, Jessica
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Yale University Press, 2022
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (257 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9780300245073 MWT15197137, 0300245076 15197137
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
An account of eighteenth-century global commerce as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders, "written with verve and filled with arresting details" (Tonio Andrade, author of The Gunpowder Age). This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders-George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras-and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner workings of Britain's imperial expansion and global network of trade, revealing how an unstable credit system and a financial crisis ultimately led to greater British intervention in India and China
Mode of access: World Wide Web