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

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

Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the “Milk of Paradise” for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of

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