The chronicles of the East India company, trading to China 1635-1834. Vol., I
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Morse, Hosea Ballou, 1855-1934
issued: 2018-11-06
issued: 1926
description: "Vo1.2, chapters 42 and 46 contain material on the economic aspects of the fur trade."-- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 209
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extent: xxii, 305, [8] pages : frontispiece, illustrations, tables, map (one folded) ; 23 cm
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note: Oxford University Press London Edinburgh Glasgow Copenhagen New York Toronto Melbourne Cape Town Bombay Calcutta Madras Shanghai Humphrey Milford Publisher to the University H.M.S. CENTURION, 60 Guns, 1743 i. The Chronicles of the EAST INDIA COMPANY trading to China 1635-1834 By HOSEA BALLOU MORSE, LL.D. Author of The Currency of China, The Gilds of China The Trade and Administration of China The International Relations of the Chinese Empire VOL. I OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1926 ~1 Printed in England At the Oxford University Press By John Johnson Printer to the University I TO THE MEMORY OF EDWARD B. DREW WITH GRATEFUL RECOLLECTION OF OUR FRIENDSHIP OF FIFTY YEARS PREFATORY NOTE The preparation of this work has been made possible by the liberality of the India Office in giving me access to all of the Honourable East India Company's records relating to China which survive. It is much to be regretted that there are several missing years in these records, which must have been at the disposal of Mr. Peter Auber, writing in 1834, but which since that date have disappeared. One gap, from 1705 to 1711, covers the period in which was carried into effect the union between the old (the London) and the new (the English) Company ; during these years there can be no doubt that there were events recorded of some importance. In the middle of the century there are a few years missing—1743-4, 1748, 1752— but for those years some information has been obtained from the Letter Books, which have been preserved to April, I753> containing the instructions and observations of the Court of Directors to all stations, including China. Then there is a gap of twenty-one years, from 1754 to 1774, hiatus valde deflendus, in which there remain neither ship's diaries, nor Council's consultations, nor Court's directions. During this period the two most significant events, in their effect on the China trade, were the Seven Years' War and the North American Acts—the Stamp Act and the Tea tax. By t…
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has type: Books
identifier: HF3508.C5 M6
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0373597
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. I.K. Barber Library. HF3508.C5 M6
subject: Great Britain--Commerce
subject: China--Commerce
subject: East India Company
type: Text