Local government and taxation in the United Kingdom. A series of essays pub. under the sanction of the Cobden club

Major Unequal Treaties Imposed on China Treaty of Nanjing (1842) with the United Kingdom Treaty of the Bogue (1843) with the United Kingdom Treaty of Wanghia (1844) with the United States Treaty of Whampoa (1844) with France Treaty of Aigun (1858) with Russia Treaty of Tianjin (1858) with France, the United Kingdom, Russia and the United States Convention of Peking (1860) with the United Kingdom, France and Russia Treaty of Tientsin (1861) with Prussia and the German Customs Union Chefoo Convention (1876) with the United Kingdom Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking (1887) with Portugal Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895) with Japan Li-Lobanov Treaty (1896) with Russia Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory (1898) with the United Kingdom Boxer Protocol (1901) with the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Austro-Hungary, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands Twenty-One Demands (1915) with Japan China ’s impotence in the face of growing foreign intervention stimulated a movement ...»