新书：Mr. Smith Goes to China

书名:Mr. Smith Goes to China:Three Scots in the Making of Britain’s Global Empire

出版社：耶鲁大学出版社

出版时间：2019年7月23日

页数：256 pages,

6 1/8 x 9 1/4 20 b/w illus.
ISBN: 9780300236088

内容简介

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An illuminating account of global commerce in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders
 
This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders—George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras—and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner workings of Britain’s imperial expansion and global network of trade, revealing how an unstable credit system and a financial crisis ultimately led to greater British intervention in India and China.

作者简介

Jessica Hanser

Humanities (History)

Assistant Professor

Jessica Hanser is assistant professor of history at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Hanser’s doctoral dissertation, on which this book is based, won Yale University’s Hans Gatzke Prize in European History.

Dr Jessica Hanser received her BA from the University of Chicago in Anthropology in 2003, an MPhil in Early Modern History from the University of Cambridge in 2004 and a PhD in History from Yale University in May 2012.

Hailing from sunny south Florida, Dr Hanser has trotted the globe, calling Hong Kong, Italy, Israel, England and Taiwan home. Dr Hanser feels most exhilarated when learning about and from cultures and societies new to her.

As a historian of Sino-British relations, Dr Hanser feels that there are few better places to work than Singapore. Some of Dr Hanser’s most challenging and formative academic experiences took place while studying the great books in the core curriculum at the University of Chicago, where her teachers brought her into the great conversation. Dr Hanser hopes to continue this conversation with her students at Yale-NUS College.

As a scholar, Dr Hanser is interested in the following research areas.British History、Chinese History、European History、British Empire、Economic History.

Reviews

“An original, heroically researched, and fluent study. The careful research and synthetic contexts render the narrative riveting.”—Kathleen Wilson, Stony Brook University

"In this impressive book, Jessica Hanser opens a fresh window on the British overseas trading world. Written with verve and filled with arresting details, the book tells the true stories of three Scots, all named George Smith, and uses their experiences to cast new light on imperialism, cross-cultural trade, and global finance in the eighteenth century. This is global microhistory at its finest."—Tonio Andrade, author of The Gunpowder Age