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Britain fights two Opium Wars with China

1839 · importance 2/5 · ai_extracted

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Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference pp. 310-314 · open book
Britain's two "opium wars" with China, in 1839-42 and 1855-60, are classic cases of a state using military means to make another state engage in a form of commerce it did not want.

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Start date (EDTF) 1839 End date (EDTF, empty for a point event)

1914 · 1914-07-28 · -0489 (490 BCE) · 1930~ (circa) · 19XX (century) · 197X (decade)

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