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Opium Regimes
Language: en
Pages: 470
Authors: Timothy Brook
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-09-18 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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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
Opium Regimes
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Timothy Brook
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-08-30 - Publisher:

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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
Empires of Vice
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Diana S. Kim
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-10 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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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
A State Built on Sand
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: David Mansfield
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivatio
History of the Opium Problem
Language: en
Pages: 851
Authors: Hans Derks
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-18 - Publisher: BRILL

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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 intro