A while back, I posted a review of When America First Met China, a history of Chinese-American-British trade relations up to where steamships enter the picture. In the book, the author, Eric Jay Dolin talks about the various continents that traders visited in search of…
The edge of the earth means different things to different people. It also depends on the context. Mount Everest is one edge–the top edge at approximately 29,035 feet. To people living in the 17th and 18th centuries’ Europe, Australia was probably the edge of the…
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