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In 1857 Laurence Oliphant (1829–88), lawyer, journalist, diplomat and sometime spy, later Liberal MP, satirical novelist, and, for a time, adherent of the religious mystic Thomas Harris, became private secretary to Lord Elgin (1811–63), accompanying him to China, and thence to Japan, on a mission to protect and extend British trading interests in the region. Oliphant's 1859 account of the trip was published in two volumes. Volume 2 deals with the negotiation of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Yedo, the legalisation of the Chinese opium trade and combat with Chinese insurgents at Nankin. The work is a mixture of travel narrative - Oliphant had previously written about his travels in Nepal and in the Crimea (also reissued in this series) - and political analysis. It provides both an informative account of the war from a privileged vantage point and a window upon Oliphant's own colourful career.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Humanities History Regional & national history

• Plný název: Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59
• Autor: Laurence Oliphant
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 554
• EAN: 9781108045834
• ISBN: 1108045839
• ID: 02057884
• Nakladatelství: Cambridge University Press
• Hmotnost: 700 g
• Rozměry: 142 × 217 × 31 mm
• Datum vydání: 26. April 2012

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