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• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• File Size : 34,7 Mb
• Release Date : 18 September 2000

Opium Regimes draws on a range of research to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation, but involved Chinese merchants and state agents, and Japanese imperial

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 33,7 Mb
• Release Date : 30 August 2000

Papers presented at a conference on the history of opium in East Asia. Includes: Opium for China: The British Connection; Opium in Late-Edo to Meiji Eyes; Drugs, Taxes, & Chinese Capitalism

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 50,9 Mb
• Release Date : 08 September 2005

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• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 24,8 Mb
• Release Date : 18 April 2012

Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was introduced in India and Indonesia

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 31,5 Mb
• Release Date : 10 August 2021

A Shared Turn : Opium and the Rise of Prohibition -- The Different Lives of Southeast Asia's Opium Monopolies -- "Morally Wrecked" in British Burma, 1870s-1890s -- Fiscal Dependency in

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 25,8 Mb
• Release Date : 12 November 2018

In 1920 the League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs captured eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking. Steffen Rimner shows how local

• Publisher : UBC Press
• File Size : 48,6 Mb
• Release Date : 03 October 2012

In China, both opium and alcohol were used for centuries in the pursuit of health and leisure while simultaneously linked to personal and social decline. The impact of these substances

• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
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• Release Date : 02 September 2011

‘A gripping read as well as an important one.’ Rana Mitter, Guardian In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded

• Publisher : State University of New York Press
• File Size : 41,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 February 2012

In the nineteenth century, opium smoking was common throughout China and regarded as a vice no different from any other: pleasurable, potentially dangerous, but not a threat to destroy the

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 24,6 Mb
• Release Date : 08 September 2005

In a remarkable and broad-ranging narrative, Yangwen Zheng's book explores the history of opium consumption in China from 1483 to the late twentieth century. The story begins in the mid-Ming dynasty,