HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Extraterritoriality, United States
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Recapitulation on the last lecture: port cities expanded british economic power, boosted manufacturing and finance, there was strong connection between new york and london, example: jp morgan banking institution, ny attracted the most number of immigrants at that time, buenos aires, political and economic capital of argentina, more british investments than american (only one in south america, investments centered on railways. Treaty ports: qing dynasty and qajar dynasty, british and qing dynasty (shanghai treaty port, how did shanghai become a treaty port, britain established an informal agreement to operate the port, thereby operating the whole city, meaning that shanghai follows the laws of britain instead of qing. Dynasty: japanese, british, and americans occupied shanghai and imposed their legislations, the execution of foreign laws is known as extraterritoriality, shanghai had low or no tariffs on goods coming in, war with qing dynasty, the control over shanghai was a result of the first opium war (1829 .
