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Book Chapter: Once Upon A Time In 1784: American Mercantile Biographies And The Romance Of Free Trade Imperialism
Title | Once Upon A Time In 1784: American Mercantile Biographies And The Romance Of Free Trade Imperialism |
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Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Sydney University Press |
Citation | Once Upon A Time In 1784: American Mercantile Biographies And The Romance Of Free Trade Imperialism. In Christie, W; Dunstan, A & Tong, QS (Eds.), Tribute And Trade: China And Global Modernity, 1784–1935, p. 109-144. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2020 How to Cite? |
Abstract | In the antebellum United States, biographical accounts of China traders helped lend the year 1784 retrospective global historical significance with implications for China’s relationship to global modernity. Life stories of American 'merchant princes' registered the promise of free trade after the US broke out of Britain’s mercantile world system during the Revolutionary War. Their biographies also registered the contradictory meanings of the phrase during the First (1839–42) and Second Opium War (1856–60) as sectional antagonism in the US led to the US Civil War. By looking at antebellum national biographies related to the China trade, this essay considers how biographers such structured their subjects’ experiences into national romances of individual accomplishment while layering meanings of free trade to distinguish the United States from European imperialism amidst the Opium Wars. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/286500 |
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dc.contributor.author | Johnson, KA | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-31T07:04:44Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-31T07:04:44Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Once Upon A Time In 1784: American Mercantile Biographies And The Romance Of Free Trade Imperialism. In Christie, W; Dunstan, A & Tong, QS (Eds.), Tribute And Trade: China And Global Modernity, 1784–1935, p. 109-144. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781743326008 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/286500 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In the antebellum United States, biographical accounts of China traders helped lend the year 1784 retrospective global historical significance with implications for China’s relationship to global modernity. Life stories of American 'merchant princes' registered the promise of free trade after the US broke out of Britain’s mercantile world system during the Revolutionary War. Their biographies also registered the contradictory meanings of the phrase during the First (1839–42) and Second Opium War (1856–60) as sectional antagonism in the US led to the US Civil War. By looking at antebellum national biographies related to the China trade, this essay considers how biographers such structured their subjects’ experiences into national romances of individual accomplishment while layering meanings of free trade to distinguish the United States from European imperialism amidst the Opium Wars. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Sydney University Press | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Tribute And Trade: China And Global Modernity, 1784–1935 | - |
dc.title | Once Upon A Time In 1784: American Mercantile Biographies And The Romance Of Free Trade Imperialism | - |
dc.type | Book_Chapter | - |
dc.identifier.email | Johnson, KA: kjohnson@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Johnson, KA=rp01339 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 313795 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 109 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 144 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Sydney | - |
dc.identifier.partofdoi | 10.2307/j.ctv12pntkh | - |