Opium's Orphans : : The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs.
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Reaktion Books, Limited,, 2022. Ã2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (401 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- A Note on Weights and Currencies
- Prologue
- Part I: The Rise of Control
- 1. Forbidden Cities
- 2. Opium Wars
- 3. Paradise Lost?
- 4. Shanghai and the Hague
- Part II: Prohibition Triumphant
- 5. Gangsters
- 6. Drug Prohibition at Its Zenith
- 7. Overreach
- Part III: The System Challenged
- 8. Drug Lords
- 9. The Consensus Crumbles
- 10. Opiate Overdose
- Closing Observations
- Appendix I: Opium Smoker Numbers in Nineteenth-Century China
- Appendix II: League-Era Opium Regime Statistics
- Appendix III: Post-War Drug Seizures
- References
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Index.