Drugs and Empires introduces new research that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world. It re-examines controversies about such issues as the Asian opium trade or the sale of alcohol in Africa and addresses new areas of research, including the impact of imperial drugs profits on American history.

This fascinating, entertaining and often gruelling book by James Mills, examines the lunatic asylums set up by the British in nineteenth-century India. The author asserts that there was a growth in asylums following the Indian Mutiny, fuelled by the fear of itinerant and dangerous individuals, which existed primarily in the British imagination. Once established though, these asylums, which were staffed by Indians and populated by Indians, quickly became arenas in which the designs of the British were contested and confronted. Mills argues that power is everywhere and is behind every action;...

Gus Parham has just been nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. But when an old enemy digs into his past, Gus finds out he has a daughter who had been given up for adoption by his wife before they were married. On the eve of his confirmation, Gus is presented with a videotape of his daughter--and an unspeakable threat. Now he must struggle to preserve his integrity, his family, and his life.

To former DEA agent Doug Fleming, it is the deal of a lifetime. Carry 100 million dollars in bearer bonds from Caracas to New York as a small favour for an old contact and get the change to rebuild your life. But things never go the way they should.