'A Life of Suspicion and Distrust'

Autor: Thomas Larkin

Publikováno v: Pacific Historical Review. 92:135-163

On January 15, 1857, as the Second Opium War raged, bread distributed by the Esing bakery to Hong Kong’s Western community was doctored with a prodigious amount of arsenic. Few were seriously harmed, but the American trader Augustine Heard Jr. note

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https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.135

The global American Civil War and Anglo-American relations in China's treaty ports

Autor: Thomas Larkin

Publikováno v: Larkin, T M 2022, ' The global American Civil War and Anglo-American relations in China's treaty ports ', The Historical Journal, pp. 1-23 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X22000243

Taking a global approach to the American Civil War from the vantage of China, this article explores the nineteenth-century transnational connections and disconnections that linked the American community there to distant diplomatic crises unfolding in

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The Only Girl in Amoy:Gender and American Patriotism in a Nineteenth-Century Treaty Port

Autor: Thomas Larkin

Publikováno v: Larkin, T M 2022, ' The Only Girl in Amoy : Gender and American Patriotism in a Nineteenth-Century Treaty Port ', Gender and History . https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12629

In 1861 twenty-year-old Ruth Bradford accompanied her father to the Chinese treaty port of Amoy where he was to serve as American consul. Bradford recorded this trip in a diary kept from her departure from New York until her 1863 return. Drawing upon

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The China Firm : American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society

Autor: Thomas Larkin

What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore the ways Ame

Mobility of pharmaceutical and personal care products in lime amended wastewater biosolids

Autor: Thomas Larkin, Yantao Song, Naresh Singhal, Kun Wang

Publikováno v: Science of The Total Environment. 624:1263-1273

Lime amendment of biosolids can produce large quantities of hydroxyl ions and increase biosolids pH. The mobility of some pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) is closely correlated with the pH of biosolids. In this study the mobility of

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