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Foreign Trade of Russia and Britain with Asia in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

A. M. Petrov
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Extract

Before expounding the fundamental provisions of my report, I deem it necessary to make some preliminary remarks. In my opinion, they will help bring to light some reasons for the situation that took shape in the foreign trade of Russia and Britain with Asia in the seventeenth–nineteenth centuries.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 625 - 637
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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