Dael A. Norwood is assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware.

• Introduction: America’s Business with ChinaChapter One Founding a Free, Trading RepublicChapter Two The Paradox of a Pacific PolicyChapter Three Troubled WatersChapter Four Sovereign Rights, or America’s First Opium ProblemChapter Five The Empire’s New RoadsChapter Six This Slave Trade of the Nineteenth CenturyChapter Seven A Propped-Open DoorChapter Eight Death of a Trade, Birth of a MarketAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Accounting for the China TradeNotesIndex

"An excellent, and much needed, account of China's pivotal role in the US economy since the very inception of the Republic."

Dael A. Norwood is assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware.

• Introduction: America’s Business with ChinaChapter One Founding a Free, Trading RepublicChapter Two The Paradox of a Pacific PolicyChapter Three Troubled WatersChapter Four Sovereign Rights, or America’s First Opium ProblemChapter Five The Empire’s New RoadsChapter Six This Slave Trade of the Nineteenth CenturyChapter Seven A Propped-Open DoorChapter Eight Death of a Trade, Birth of a MarketAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Accounting for the China TradeNotesIndex

"An excellent, and much needed, account of China's pivotal role in the US economy since the very inception of the Republic."

Dael A. Norwood is assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware.

• Introduction: America’s Business with ChinaChapter One Founding a Free, Trading RepublicChapter Two The Paradox of a Pacific PolicyChapter Three Troubled WatersChapter Four Sovereign Rights, or America’s First Opium ProblemChapter Five The Empire’s New RoadsChapter Six This Slave Trade of the Nineteenth CenturyChapter Seven A Propped-Open DoorChapter Eight Death of a Trade, Birth of a MarketAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Accounting for the China TradeNotesIndex

"An excellent, and much needed, account of China's pivotal role in the US economy since the very inception of the Republic."