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First Opium War, 1839-1842
Tůmová, Adéla ; Skřivan, Aleš (advisor) ; Valkoun, Jaroslav (referee)
This work deals with the course of the First Anglo-Chinese War (1839-42), also known as the First Opium War, and the events that led to this conflict. The work describes and evaluates first contacts between Europeans and China, Chinese attitude to foreigners but also political system and problems of Imperial China. The main focus of work is the British tea trade and specifics of this trade known as the Canton System, the British diplomatic mission, development of the opium trade and problems, which opium created and which was the main cause of war with Great Britain and opening of China to the world.
Price development of selected agricultural commodity
Žitný, Ondřej ; Mach, Jiří (advisor) ; Hošková, Pavla (referee)
Bachelor thesis aims on price development of tea in Kenya. Introductory part includes basic information about tea, its sorts and its cultivation. Subsequently the biggest world tea producers and exporters are introduced and then the thesis is devoted to the system of defining and creating tea price. This chapter comprises descriptions of individual factors influencing tea price as. Methods such as regression and correlation analysis, and time series analysis were used for analyzing of tea price development. The results of regression and correlation analysis revealed that tea price within the time span of one year is influenced from 40 % by the volume of concrete country´s production, whereas tea price within one month is influenced from 6 % by the volume of country´s production. According to time series analysis tea price will grow in the future. However having a look into the past, sudden tea price jumps can not be excluded.

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