The Opium Question
Author: Samuel Warren
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 136
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Author: Samuel Warren
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hans Derks
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-04-18
Total Pages: 851
ISBN-13: 9004221581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering 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: Alan Baumler
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780472067688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn intriguing historical examination of China's widespread opium epidemic
Author: Samuel Warren
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 142
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur Evans Moule
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-08-22
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 3385567971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Timothy Brook
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-09-18
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780520222366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpium 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: Rolf Bauer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9004385185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2019 Michael Mitterauer-Prize for best monograph The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India is a pioneering work about the more than one million peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. Based on a profound empirical analysis, Rolf Bauer not only shows that the peasants cultivated poppy against a substantial loss but he also reveals how they were coerced into the production of this drug. By dissecting the economic and social power relations on a local level, this study explains how a triangle of debt, the colonial state’s power and social dependencies in the village formed the coercive mechanisms that transformed the peasants into opium producers. The result is a book that adds to our understanding of peasant economies in a colonial context.
Author: Yangwen Zheng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-09-08
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521846080
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Author: Edward Belcher
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Published: 1843
Total Pages: 482
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank Dikötter
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004-04-16
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780226149059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium—a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, launched its own version of the "war on drugs," which lasted roughly sixty years, from 1880 to World War II and the beginning of Chinese communism. But, as Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nineteenth century, but rather the failure of the British to grasp the consequences of prohibition. In a stunning historical reversal, Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun tell this different story of the relationship between opium and the Chinese. They reveal that opium actually had few harmful effects on either health or longevity; in fact, it was prepared and appreciated in highly complex rituals with inbuilt constraints preventing excessive use. Opium was even used as a medicinal panacea in China before the availability of aspirin and penicillin. But as a result of the British effort to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances. Narcotic Culture provides abundant evidence that the transition from a tolerated opium culture to a system of prohibition produced a "cure" that was far worse than the disease. Delving into a history of drugs and their abuses, Narcotic Culture is part revisionist history of imperial and twentieth-century Britain and part sobering portrait of the dangers of prohibition.