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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
History of the Opium Problem
Language: en
Pages: 850
Authors: Hans Derks
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-18 - Publisher: BRILL

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Opium Regimes
Language: en
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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
Milk of Paradise
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