Canton
Books
- Fast Ships, Bad Trade Opium Clippers and the Making of the China War · Liszt Think
In 1829, the East India Company’s monopoly birthed a vessel designed to outrun monsoons and defy imperial law.
- The Empire’s Last Monopoly…Island’s anchorage, he could see the other ships already at their moorings—their cargo long since sold, their captains gone up the river to Canton to collect their bills and arrange their return cargoes of tea and silk. He was weeks late. The season’s best prices had come and gone whil…
- The Red Rover’s Revolution…me to examine her plans understood the calculus. William Jardine had arrived in Calcutta that year with a reputation already established in Canton. James Matheson, his partner, had been watching the shipping intelligence with the particular attention of a man who understood that time w…
- A Fleet Takes Shape…y loaded—forty chests to a crab, eight crabs to a tide, and the Sylph’s entire cargo would be ashore before the sun cleared the hills above Canton. The speed of the ship had become the speed of the entire system. What the Red Rover had proved possible in 1829, the trade now required as…