treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society … found everywhere in the records but are almost invisible in the literature. The China Firm addresses this problem through a … study of the men and women involved in the most prominent and important American trading firm in treaty-port China …

Victorian Britain was both a land of emigration and immigration. This book covers a wide range of case studies to …-studies, this volume looks into the history of the British Empire, 19th century international migration networks, as well as the …, mainly initiated by the Industrial Revolution, considerably impacted on people?s movements. It presents a history of …