Trade through the Himalayas : the early British attempts to open Tibet.
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| Author / Creator: | Cammann, Schuyler V. R. (Schuyler Van Rensselaer) |
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| Imprint: | Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, [1970, c1951] |
| Description: | x, 186 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3461670 |
| Summary: | After 1750, various factors closed Tibet to access from India. This monograph recounts the attempts of the British to revive the flagging economy of Bengal, depressed by the famine of 1770, by extending the trade of the East India Company into Tibet and West China. |
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| Item Description: | "The writer's Ph. D. thesis at Johns Hopkins University ... extensively revised." |
| Physical Description: | x, 186 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. 165-179. |
| ISBN: | 0837132606 |