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Author Lockwood, Stephen Chapman

Title Augustine Heard and Company, 1858-1862 : American merchants in China / by Stephen Chapman Lockwood
Published Cambridge, East Asian Research Center, Harvard University; distributed by Harvard University Press, 1971

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 157 pages) illustrations
Series Harvard East Asian monographs, 37
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 37
Contents Preliminary Material / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Merchant Houses at Mid-Century / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Augustine Heard & Co., Agency House / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Constituents and Market Strategy / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Paying for Tea: Mediums of Exchange / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Risk Sharing / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Compradors and Business Up-Country / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Merchant Life in the Ports / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- War, Rebellion, and the Revolution in Communications / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- The Arrow War / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Business and War / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- The Government Rice Contract / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Rebels and Steam on the Yangtze / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Changing Environment and Foreign Trade / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Conclusion / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Notes / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Bibliography / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Index / Stephen Chapman Lockwood -- Harvard East Asian Monographs / Stephen Chapman Lockwood
Summary A history of Augustine Heard and Company between 1858 and 1862 and more generally of the American penetration of Chinese markets on the eve of the opening of the Yangtze River to foreign trade
Analysis Augustine Heard & Company
China Commerce United States
United States Commerce China
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150)
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Subject Augustine Heard & Company.
SUBJECT Augustine Heard & Company. fast (OCoLC)fst00670074
Subject Commerce.
SUBJECT United States -- Commerce -- China
China -- Commerce -- United States
Subject China.
United States.
Chine -- Commerce -- États-Unis.
États-Unis -- Commerce -- Chine.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781684171682
1684171687