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  • Rio Insidious Connections

    The Insidious Trilogy, #1

    by Richard Grace ...
    Series Book 1 - The Insidious Trilogy
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "A five-star, immersive thrill ride through paradise and peril. This book was everything I didn't know I needed—scintillating escapism with a dark, beating heart. From the vibrant streets of Copacabana to the knife's edge inside a Rio favela, this story pulses with danger, mystery, and unexpected humor. Richard isn't your prototypical hero—he's flawed, observant, and increasingly aware ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Opium and Empire

    The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson

    by Richard Grace ...
    In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson & Company's aggressive marketing strategies concentrated on the export of teas and the import of opium, sold offshore to Chinese smugglers.Jardine and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Imperial Twilight

    The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

    by Stephen R. Platt ...
    As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, ... Read more

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  • Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates

    by Peter Ward Fay ...
    This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century thereafter distinguished western relations with this quarter of the globe—the process that is ... Read more

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  • Ten Cities that Made an Empire

    by Tristram Hunt ...
    From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised itThe final embers of the British Empire are dying, but its legacy remains in the lives and structures of the cities which it shaped. Here Tristram Hunt examines the stories and ... Read more

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  • The Opium Wars

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    by Frank Sanello, W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D. ...
    A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium WarsIn this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational ... Read more

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  • Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Celebration

    70 Years: 1952–2022

    by Brian Hoey ...
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    Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has carried out her role as Sovereign with flawless professionalism. Her demeanour has been perfect, and in the seventy years she has reigned she has epitomised all the hallmarks of an iconic sovereign beloved of her people.As Heir Presumptive, the young Princess Elizabeth received special tuition in law and constitutional history to prepare her for her future role ... Read more

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  • Northerners

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  • The Zong

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    "A lucid, fluent and fascinating account of the Zong. The book details the horror of the mass killing of enslaved Africans on board the ship in 1781."—Gad Heuman, co-editor of The Routledge History of SlaveryOn November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The ... Read more

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