History Of The Opium Problem

Author : Hans Derks
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004221581
Total Pages : 851 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Opium Problem written by Hans Derks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium problem around 1950.

Author : Hans Derks
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004225897
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Opium Problem written by Hans Derks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium problem around 1950.

Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520222366
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opium Regimes written by Timothy Brook and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-09-18 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 agents as well.

Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307961745
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Twilight written by Stephen R. Platt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.

Author : David Anthony Bello
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174058
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opium and the Limits of EmpireOpium and the Limits of Empire written by David Anthony Bello and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The British opium trade along China’s seacoast has come to symbolize China’s century-long descent into political and social chaos. In the standard historical narrative, opium is the primary medium through which China encountered the economic, social, and political institutions of the West. Opium, however, was not a Sino–British problem confined to southeastern China. It was, rather, an empire-wide crisis, and its spread among an ethnically diverse populace created regionally and culturally distinct problems of control for the Qing state. This book examines the crisis from the perspective of Qing prohibition efforts. The author argues that opium prohibition, and not the opium wars, was genuinely imperial in scale and is hence much more representative of the actual drug problem faced by Qing administrators. The study of prohibition also permits a more comprehensive and accurate observation of the economics and criminology of opium. The Qing drug traffic involved the domestic production, distribution, and consumption of opium. A balanced examination of the opium market and state anti-drug policy in terms of prohibition reveals the importance of the empire’s landlocked western frontier regions, which were the domestic production centers, in what has previously been considered an essentially coastal problem."

Author : P. E. Caquet
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789145597
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opium’s Orphans written by P. E. Caquet and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upending all we know about the war on drugs, a history of the anti-narcotics movement’s origins, evolution, and questionable effectiveness. Opium’s Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the “war on drugs.” A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design. The war on drugs did not originate in Europe or the United States, and even less with President Nixon, but in China. Two Opium Wars followed by Western attempts to atone for them gave birth to an anti-narcotics order that has come to span the globe. But has the war on drugs succeeded? As opioid deaths and cartel violence run rampant, contestation becomes more vocal, and marijuana is slated for legalization, Opium's Orphans proposes that it is time to go back to the drawing board.

Author : W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D.
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402252056
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Opium Wars written by W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D. and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium Wars In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug, opium wrought havoc on Chinese society. By the early nineteenth century, 90 percent of the Emperor's court and the majority of the army were opium addicts. Britain was also a nation addicted—to tea, grown in China, and paid for with profits made from the opium trade. When China tried to ban the use of the drug and bar its Western smugglers from it gates, England decided to fight to keep open China's ports for its importation. England, the superpower of its time, managed to do so in two wars, resulting in a drug-induced devastation of the Chinese people that would last 150 years. In this page-turning, dramatic and colorful history, The Opium Wars responds to past, biased Western accounts by representing the neglected Chinese version of the story and showing how the wars stand as one of the monumental clashes between the cultures of East and West. "A fine popular account."—Publishers Weekly "Their account of the causes, military campaigns and tragic effects of these wars is absorbing, frequently macabre and deeply unsettling."—Booklist

Author : Martin Booth
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466853972
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opium written by Martin Booth and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcotic. Opium: A History traces the drug's astounding impact on world culture--from its religious use by prehistoric peoples to its influence on the imaginations of the Romantic writers; from the earliest medical science to the Sino-British opium wars. And, in the present day, as the addict population rises and penetrates every walk of life, Opium shows how the international multibillion-dollar heroin industry operates with terrifying efficiency and forms an integral part of the world's money markets. In this first full-length history of opium, acclaimed author Martin Booth uncovers the multifaceted nature of this remarkable narcotic and the bittersweet effects of a simple poppy with a deadly legacy.

Author : Lucy Inglis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643130951
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milk of Paradise written by Lucy Inglis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the “Milk of Paradise” for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain—and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport, and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand. No other substance in the world is as simple to produce or as profitable. It is the basis of a gargantuan industry built upon a shady underworld, but ultimately it is an agricultural product that lives many lives before it reaches the branded blister packet, the intravenous drip, or the scorched and filthy spoon. Many of us will end our lives dependent on it. In Milk of Paradise, acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes readers on an epic journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afghanistan, from Sanskrit to pop, from poppy tears to smack, from morphine to today’s synthetic opiates. It is a tale of addiction, trade, crime, sex, war, literature, medicine, and, above all, money. And, as this ambitious, wide-ranging, and compelling account vividly shows, the history of opium is our history and it speaks to us of who we are.

Author : Alan Baumler
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067688
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern China and Opium written by Alan Baumler and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing historical examination of China's widespread opium epidemic