Publication Date
1999
Publication Place
London ; New York -
Routledge, 1999.
Subject
Opium trade -- Asia -- History., Drug traffic -- Political aspects -- Asia., Drug control -- Asia.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
208
Physical Dimensions
24 cm
Library
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Record ID
3100001~!114655~!4726
Library Location
HS-SS Stacks
Date
1999
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-201) and index.. 114655. xiv, 208 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
İçindekiler
The dream of empire -- All the drowsy syrups of the world -- Cleverer than alchemists -- In compassion to mankind -- The most gentlemanlike speculation -- In the hands of Jews and Armenians -- A matter of considerably greater solicitude -- The most long-continued and systematic international crime -- Appendix 1: The literature of the opium trade -- Appendix 2 : A comment on the Jardine Matheson "Opium Circulars"-- Appendix : Englebert Kaempfer's comments on opium from his "Amoenitatum Exoticarum" -- Appendix 4 : The economics of Malwa opium cultivation.
ISBN
0415199182 (hardback), 9780415199186 (hardback), 0415215005 (paperback), 9780415215008 (paperback)
Seri
Asia's transformations, Asia's transformations