Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy : A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950

ISBN-13: 9780415199186 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 224 str.

Carl A. Trocki

Opis

The drug trade was a significant element underpinning the whole of colonial market expansion and British imperial economy. This work explores in detail the growth and development of the opium trade in relation to colonial market expansion.

Recenzje

'...a very important argument with implications beyond the social history of drugs, into the broader history of the founding of empire.' - Professor Nigel South, University of Essex

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The dream of empire; Chapter 2 All the drowsy syrups of the world; Chapter 3 Cleverer than alchemists; Chapter 4 In compassion to mankind; Chapter 5 The most gentlemanlike speculation; Chapter 6 In the hands of Jews and Armenians; Chapter 7 A matter of considerably greater solicitude; Chapter 8 The most long-continued and systematic international crime;

O autorze

Trocki, Carl