Poppies, Politics, and Power : : Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy / / James Tharin Bradford.
Historians have long neglected Afghanistan's broader history when portraying the opium industry. But in Poppies, Politics, and Power, James Tharin Bradford rebalances the discourse, showing that it is not the past forty years of lawlessness that makes the opium industry what it is, but the shee...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Colonial and Global Engagements: Afghan Opium on the Periphery of the Global Drug Market
- 2. The Politics of Prohibition: How Diplomacy with the United States Shifted the Drug Control Paradigm in Afghanistan
- 3. The Consequences of Coercion in Badakhshan: The 1958 Prohibition of Opium and the Issue of Culture in Drug Control Policy
- 4. East Meets West: Hippies, Hash, and the Globalization of the Afghan Drug Trade
- 5. The Afghan Connection: Smuggling, Heroin, and Nixon’s War on Drugs in Afghanistan
- 6. All Goods Are Dangerous Goods: Development, the Global Market, and Opium in the Helmand Valley, Afghanistan
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index