As of my last knowledge update in January 2022, there is no direct financial connection between the British Royal Family and the British East India Company. The British East India Company was officially dissolved in 1874, and its assets and operations were taken over by the British Crown. Since ...
Stephen Platt on Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and China's Last Golden Age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17WF0v48vGw https://www.youtube.com/@NCUSCR
罗德岛豪宅除了 John Brown House Museum , Wetmore Mansion,还有这个豪宅是中国贸易的钱买的: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._A._Griswold_House 康州除了 Weylesyan College HALL 还有这个: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Griswold_Museum ...
Alexander Graham Bell and William H. Forbes https://www.loc.gov/resource/magbell.27100122/?sp=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hathaway_Forbes 儿子 的儿子是 哈佛艺术馆馆长 J M FORBES https://www.jmforbes.com/investment-management 父亲 https://en. ...
Brown University was funded by a fortune from the Old China Trade. John Brown's ship #1 voyage of "General Washington" 12/ 27/ 1787 departing Rhode Island, arriving at Whampoa 10/ 27/1788, back to RI 10/20/ 1789 #2 Voyage by the General Washington to the East Indies—12/30/1789 t ...
This is the first scholarly study in which the production, trade and political effects of opium and its derivatives are shown over many centuries, and in many countries (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, all Southeast Asian countries and some in Europe and the Americas). Starting in the ...