Table of Contents

Introduction: Chemical Warfare
Methods and Measures

Chapter -1.Lord Elgin's Revenge
Chapter -2.Disastrous Etiquette
Chapter -3.Zero Intolerance
Chapter -4.Canton Besieged
Chapter -5.The Black Hole of Canton
Chapter -6.The Battle in Britain
Chapter -7. Drugs and Guns
Chapter -8.Diplomacy by Gunboat
Chapter -9.The Economics of Addiction
Chapter -10.Crucifixion and Cages
Chapter -11.Steamed Victory
Chapter -12.A Price on His Head
Chapter -13.The Sacking of Amoy, Ningbo, and Charles Elliot
Chapter -14.Chinese Masada -
Chapter -15."Early Victorian Vikings"
Chapter -16.The Trade in Poison and Pigs
Chapter -17.Strange Interlude
Chapter -18.Outrageous Slings and the Arrow's Misfortune
Chapter -19.Peer Pressure
Chapter -20.Scottish Conquistador
Chapter -21.Hostilities Renewed
Chapter -22.Lord Elgin's Return
Chapter -23.To the Gates of Peking
Chapter -24.A Hostage Crisis
Chapter -25."I Am Not a Thief"
Chapter -26.Rescue and Retaliation
Chapter -27.The Diktat of Peking

Epilogue -
Illustrations and Maps
Notes
Short Bibliography
About the Authors
Index

About the Author

Historian and educator W. Travis Hanes III, Ph.D., is an expert on nineteenth-century Britain and holds a doctorate in British Imperial History from the University of Texas at Austin. He has written two books on the twilight of the British Empire in Africa, Imperial Diplomacy in the Era of Decolonization and the upcoming Imperialism or Expatriate Nationalism?

Frank Sanello is the author of 15 books on films and history. He was the film critic for the Los Angeles Daily News, and his articles have been syndicated worldwide. Both authors live in Los Angeles, California.