In The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another, W. Travis Hanes III, Ph.D. and Frank Sanello tell a vivid story of cultures in collision. Drawing on historical documents and firsthand accounts they recreate international events leading up to Britain's invasion of the Chinese mainland. They capture the chaos and turmoil of two decades of war that saw Britain's world-class armed forces engaging Chinese defenses still dependent on medieval weaponry and military strategies.
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This book seems fascinating! Nice detail and great review!
ReplyDeleteMary Queen of Scots
This book seems interesting. Especially the clash that must have occured between Britain's more modern army and China's traditional medieval strategy...
ReplyDelete-Anastasia Romanov
This has always been a topic that has caught my eye. I really like that the author used historical documents and it seems like a good idea to recapture the events because it makes the reader feel like they are there. This is a book that I would be very interested in reading.
ReplyDelete-Princess Diana
I did a book of just the opposite topic, one of China's supreme rule over the seas in the 15th century, and believe this would be a great book to read because it is so different
ReplyDelete~Morgan Freeman
Does this book discuss the European literature that was written about opium, like de Quincy's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, and Baudelaire's Les Paradis Artificiel? I am curious as to what extent the backlash against white opium users was. I understand that to westerners opium use was seens as something limited to the lower classes, and richer Europeans used it for "medical purposes".
ReplyDelete~Timothy Leary
Opium is a drug that took its toll on more than one nation, the book seems to take control of this intersting topic that in history affected so many famous people.
ReplyDelete-Vlad Putin
This book sounds extremely interesting, especially because it goes into detail regarding opium's affect on both Great Britain and China.
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It's sad because in the book I read, China was invaded again, but this time by the Japanese. The book sounds really interesting, but I know with my book, the most important (and interesting part was what came afterwards. Does your book talk about the aftermaths?
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ReplyDeletewow oh wow what a read, I find the conflict between the british and chinese durring this period of tension to be quite interesting ~Bruce Springsteen
ReplyDeleteThis book seems very intersting, some books about history seem like they have the potential to be boring but the way you explained this book it sounds like a story that would keep you interested! Very cool.
ReplyDelete-Joan of Arc
This sounds a lot like my book, but it seems much more interesting. Hopefully it portrayed the English East India Company in a much more interesting light then my book did!
ReplyDelete-Otto von Bismarck
The Opium Wars were pretty bad for China, and they didn't recover quickly. In fact, the Communist Revolution was a continuation of the discussion of whether the Chinese should resist the Westerners or become more like them. The conversation continues today.
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