The Opium Empire
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Opium Empire And The Global Political Economy
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Author : Carl Trocki
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Opium Empire And The Global Political Economy written by Carl Trocki and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Business & Economics categories.
Drug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book takes a long look at the history of our relationship with mind-altering substances. Engagingly written, with lay readers as much as specialists in mind, this book will be fascinating reading for historians, social scientists, as well as those involved in Asian studies, or economic history.
Opium And Empire In Southeast Asia
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Author : A. Wright
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-11-21
Opium And Empire In Southeast Asia written by A. Wright and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-21 with History categories.
This study investigates the connections between opium policy and imperialism in Burma. It examines what influenced the imperial regime's opium policy decisions, such as racial ideologies, the necessity of articulating a convincing rationale for British governance, and Burma's position in multiple imperial and transnational networks.
Opium And Empire
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Author : Carl A. Trocki
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Opium And Empire written by Carl A. Trocki and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with History categories.
Breaking new ground in the historiography of the overseas Chinese and British colonialism, this book focuses on two areas largely ignored by students of the period—opium and the economic role of the group of institutions known as kongsi, or secret societies.
Opium Wars
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Author : W. Travis Hanes III
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2004-02-01
Opium Wars written by W. Travis Hanes III and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-01 with History categories.
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
Opium And The Limits Of Empireopium And The Limits Of Empire
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Author : David Anthony Bello
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Opium And The Limits Of Empireopium And The Limits Of Empire written by David Anthony Bello and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with History categories.
"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."
The Qing Empire And The Opium War
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Author : Haijian Mao
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-18
The Qing Empire And The Opium War written by Haijian Mao and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-18 with History categories.
A comprehensive study of the Opium War that presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists.
The Opium Empire
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Author : John M. Jennings
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1997-04-22
The Opium Empire written by John M. Jennings and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-22 with History categories.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) found Japan guilty of deliberately promoting drug abuse as a weapon to further its imperialistic aims in Asia. This study provides the historical context behind the IMTFE's findings from the annexation of Taiwan in 1895 to the end of World War II. Given the extent to which drug use permeated the politics, economy, and culture of Asia, it was inevitable that Japan's rise as an imperial power would lead to contact with, and increasing involvement in, the opium and narcotics trade. This study argues that the nature of that involvement should be understood not simply in terms of a conspiracy to drug the people of Asia into submission, but rather as indicative of the general twists and turns of Japanese imperialism. Thus, opium and narcotics emerge not so much as a weapon of, but rather as a metaphor for, Japanese imperialism in Asia.
The Iniquities Of The Opium Trade With China
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Author : Algernon Sydney Thelwall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839
The Iniquities Of The Opium Trade With China written by Algernon Sydney Thelwall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with China categories.
Opium Regimes
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Author : Timothy Brook
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-09-18
Opium Regimes written by Timothy Brook and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-18 with History categories.
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.
Opium And Empire
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Author : Richard J. Grace
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2014-10
Opium And Empire written by Richard J. Grace and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A close look at two controversial Scottish capitalists engaged in the opium trade.