What Is The Opium Trade
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An Essay On The Opium Trade
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Author : Nathan Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1850
An Essay On The Opium Trade written by Nathan Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1850 with Commerce categories.
What Is The Opium Trade
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Author : Donald Matheson (missionary.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
What Is The Opium Trade written by Donald Matheson (missionary.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with categories.
The Opium Trade
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Author : Nathan Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
The Opium Trade written by Nathan Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with Opium trade categories.
The India China Opium Trade In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Hunt Janin
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 1999-01-01
The India China Opium Trade In The Nineteenth Century written by Hunt Janin and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with History categories.
From 1823 to 1860 a fleet of small, fast brigs and schooners carried chests of opium from India to China, often facing the challenges of pirates and typhoons along the way. This shadowy trade, conducted by American, British, and Indian firms, thrived despite its moral and legal consequences. Drawing largely on primary sources, the story of the opium trade comes through in the voices of those who saw it firsthand. Appendices describe a favorite shipboard recipe, two of the ships involved in the trade and their crews, excerpts from accounts of the Opium War, and language equivalents for proper and place names. A bibliography is included, and maps and photographs help illumine this important and unusual period of history.
The Indo British Opium Trade And Its Effect
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Author : Theodor Christlieb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
The Indo British Opium Trade And Its Effect written by Theodor Christlieb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Narcotics categories.
An Essay On The Opium Trade The Opium Trade Including A Sketch Of Its History Extent Effects Etc As Carried On In India And China Second Edition
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Author : Nathan Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
An Essay On The Opium Trade The Opium Trade Including A Sketch Of Its History Extent Effects Etc As Carried On In India And China Second Edition written by Nathan Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with categories.
What Is The Opium Trade Classic Reprint
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Author : Donald Matheson
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-01-15
What Is The Opium Trade Classic Reprint written by Donald Matheson and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-15 with History categories.
Excerpt from What Is the Opium Trade? The opium is prepared by the Government agents for the China market, by rolling it into large balls covered with a coating of opium-paste and poppy leaves, so as to exclude the air; it is then packed in chests - forty balls to a chest, and transferred to the Government warehouses at Calcutta, where the drug is put up to auction at the Government sales, of which there are four each season, at intervals of a month, commencing with December or January. At these sales the drug sells at prices varying from 700 to 1600 rupees a chest, containing 116 lbs. Weight, and yielding a profit to the Government of from 40 to 120 per chest. Their total revenue from this source, including a transit duty on the Malwa exported from Bombay, is estimated at five millions sterling for the year 1857. Malwa opium is that grown in the Independent native States. It must all pass through Bombay, where, in order to keep down its production, it is charged with a duty of 400 rupees per chest. The merchants in India purchase the Opium either on their own account or for mercantile houses in China or elsewhere, and it is then shipped in fast-sailing vessels capable of carrying from 500 to 1000 chests. Of late years the monthly steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental Company have carried cargoes of the drug to China. The quantity thus imported into China from both sides of India now exceeds chests, roughly estimated at sterling. A portion also goes to Singapore for consumption throughout the islands of the eastern Archipelago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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.
The Opium Wars
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Author : W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2004-02-01
The Opium Wars written by W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D. 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.
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
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.