Merchants of War and Peace Amy Kenny

Merchants of War and Peace Amy KennyMerchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and cultural conflicts between 'progressive' Britain and 'backward' China. Instead, it argues that the war was started by a group of British merchants in the Chinese port of Canton in the 1830s, known as the 'Warlike party'. Living in a period when British

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Religion and the Muse explores the alternately complementary and conflictual ways that religion and literature have appealed to the Western spiritual sensibility

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Scott looks at this issue in a Thai Buddhist context

this edited volume considers both the pre- and postcolonial period in India

the Zhuangzi in particular

This edition of The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs features a new

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reinforcing the walls of semi-separate internal communities and reinterpreting Islam in more liberal ways

Farnah contains contributions from well-known scholars across the world covering topics in Tocharian

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