"The Johns Hopkins University Press Director's Circle book for 2014"--Page [i]. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Samuel Shaw's polite reception, 1784-1794 -- First interlude : "Tempestuous seas of liberty," 1785-1790 -- Amasa Delano opens the Great South Sea, 1790-1820 -- Second interlude : "The strangers were Americans" -- Edmund Fanning's "Voyages round the world," 1792-1833 -- Third interlude : "How t'other side looked" -- Harriett Low in Manila and Macao, 1829-1834 -- Fourth interlude : "The estimation of all good men" -- Robert Bennet Forbes and the first opium war, 1838-1840.
Series:
Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 131st series, 1
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