Title Opium, empire, and the global political economy : a study of the Asian opium trade, 1750-1950 / Carl A. Trocki.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HV5840.A74 T76 1999	Available	---

Description	xiv, 208 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series	Asia's transformations
	Asia's transformations.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-201) and index.
Contents	Weights and measures x -- 1 Dream of empire 1 -- 2 All the drowsy syrups of the world 13 -- 3 Cleverer than alchemists 33 -- 4 In compassion to mankind 58 -- 5 Most gentlemanlike speculation 88 -- 6 In the hands of Jews and Armenians 109 -- 7 A matter of considerably greater solicitude 137 -- 8 Most long-continued and systematic international crime 160 -- Appendix 1 Literature of the opium trade 174 -- Appendix 2 A comment on the Jardine Matheson "Opium Circulars" 179 -- Appendix 3 Englebert Kaempfer's comments on opium from his "Amoenitatum Exoticarum" 181 -- Appendix 4 Economics of Malwa opium cultivation 183.
Subject	Opium trade -- Asia -- History.
	Opium trade.
	Asia.
	History.
	Drug traffic -- Political aspects -- Asia.
	Drug traffic -- Political aspects.
	Drug control -- Asia.
	Drug control.
Genre/Form	History.
Subject	Drug traffic.
	Narcotics, Control of -- Asia.
ISBN	0415199182
	9780415199186
	0415215005 paperback
	9780415215008 paperback