Britain's China Policy and the Opium Crisis: Balancing Drugs, Violence and National Honour, 1833-1840.(Book Review)

Glenn Melancon. Britain's China Policy and the Opium Crisis: Balancing Drugs, Violence and National Honour, 1833-1840. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. vii, 158. $59.95. ISBN 0-754-607-04-6.

2003 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the seminal article, "The Imperialism of Free Trade," by John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson in the Economic History Review (6, 1: 1-15). Gallagher and Robinson revolutionized our understanding of British imperialism, as they gave currency to the concept of "informal empire" to challenge the notion that the early ...

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