Opium : : Uncovering the Politics of the Poppy / / Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy.
Known to the Greeks as opos or opion, as afiun in Persian and Arabic, and fuyung in Chinese, opium is at once a palliative and a poison. Its exotic origins, its literary associations, and the properties that are, often erroneously, attributed to it have ensured an ongoing air of mystery. Pierre-Arna...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Opium: a Drug in Motion through Time and Space
- Chapter 2 Opium and Heroin in Asia: Early History and Geopolitics
- Chapter 3 Opium and Heroin in Asia: The Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent
- Chapter 4 All-Time Highs and Lows
- Chapter 5 In and Out of the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent
- Chapter 6 War, Drugs, and the War on Drugs
- Chapter 7 Opium Poppy Cultivation
- Chapter 8 Successes and Failures
- Conclusion
- Postscript
- Drug Trafficking Routes (Maps)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index