Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, a memoir, and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large. The trade was engineere ...
Newport, a city in Rhode Island, has a rich history that dates back to its founding in the 17th century. Some of the key early developers and influential figures in Newport's development include: William Coddington : One of the founders of Newport in 1639. Coddington was a p ...
What does Stanford univ. has to do with Chinese RR workers？ What does a Newport Mansion have to do with the Chinese RR workers？ Fair established the South Pacific Coast Railroad in 1876, employing 600 Chinese workers to lay down track from Newark, California down San Francisco B ...
The history of the City of Paterson includes its beginnings as the ambitious project of Alexander Hamilton and the Society for Establishing Useful Manufacturers (S.U.M.) in 1792 at the Great Falls, the early development of water power systems for industrial use, and the various types of m ...
his unique Chinese Tea House abuts the seaside cliffs behind Marble House and is currently the site of Newport Classical’s beloved sunrise concerts. The lavish Marble House mansion, built between 1888 and 1892, was designed by famed architect Richard Morris Hunt and inspired by ...
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