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The Opium Wars
Book 8 in the Asian Military History series.
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The Opium Wars is an accessible non-fiction account of the Anglo-Chinese Wars and Their Impact on Qing China. It establishes the causes, chronology and principal phases of the conflict while explaining the political aims and military resources of the opposing sides.
The book places campaigns and leadership within their wider setting, including diplomacy, civilian experience, economic pressure and the settlement or memory that followed. Its historical scope is represented on HBS by Opium Wars. Key figures linked to the book include Empress Dowager Cixi.
