303 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Contents
Dissolving Mummy -- 'Foreign Devils' -- The Napier Fizzle -- Pernicious Article -- The Coming of Lin -- Law and Profits -- Uncertain Trumpet -- Playing at War -- The Truce that Failed -- The Ransom of Canton -- Combined Operation -- 'Soothing the Barbarians' -- Gunboat Years -- Consuls and Rebels -- The Lorcha Arrow -- A Fleet on Fire -- Lord Elgin at Canton -- The Treaty of Tienstin -- Blood and Water -- Approach to Peking -- Treachery at Tungchow -- The Open Door.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-291) and index.
