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Originally Posted by sufue
I took a class in college from a prof named Peter Fay, who wrote an excellent (IMO) book about the Opium Wars. In typical undergraduate fashion, I barely cracked the book when in his class, but years later "found" it again while moving, read it without the pressure of other classes, term papers, problem sets, quizzes, etc., and really enjoyed it. Until reading it, I didn't really realize much about Great Britain in China either...
Unfortunately the book is a little pricey ($16-ish) at Kindle. There is an $0.99 edition at Kobo (and a $25-ish) edition. I bought the $0.99 version, and it's pretty poor as an e-book (odd formatting, no workable TOC, etc.) - or at least it was several years ago when I bought it. You'd have to take a look and see if it's fixed (or bearable). Both the Kobo versions are coupon/VIPable.
Links for The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar (crazy long title) by Peter Ward Fay;
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Opium-War-184...dp/B00AFENCD8/
Kobo US (0.99 version): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/opi...rced-her-gates |
I notice that at least one edition was published by the University of North Carolina Press. The details are fuzzy in my mind, but the state of North Carolina often will digitize books of which state supported schools in North Carolina have published, and offer them free to the public, including for people who are not residents of the state. Many times the books are already digitized; many times you will need to request that ones that haven't yet been digitized will be digitized (sometimes you may have to wait for a few months for them to get to it).
I actually got them to digitize a book for me, a year or two ago. I bookmarked the relevant websites telling about this service, but I've been unexpectedly stranded out of town for several months with only a smartphone, and I hadn't sync'd my bookmarks on it with the bookmarks on my computer at home. I wrote extensively in posts on Mobileread about this service, however, but for some reason I never can get the information, that I'm trying to find, using Mobileread's search feature. Maybe you can, or someone can for you.
Good luck.