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Opium : uncovering the politics of the poppy
Opium: bitter, brownish, sticky - and highly addictive. But its impact goes beyond tales of personal pleasure or misery. It is a story played out on an international stage: major powers, local war lords, national governments - all have a stake in the continuing story that is illicit opium production. Pierre Chouvy exposes the politics behind illicit opium production. In particular he explores the remote mountainous regions of Asia that produce 90% of the world's illicit opium - the Golden Triangle of Thailand, Laos and Burma and the Golden Crescent of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. He reveals the real drivers of the modern day trade and shows why a century of international effort, and forty years of a US led war on drugs, have failed. A powerful insight into the complex international politics of the poppy.
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Opium. Die Blumen des Bösen
Opium, einst für rituelle Zwecke verwendet, ist eine Substanz, die Schmerzen dämpft und Zugang zu einer künstlichen Welt bietet.Lange wurde es von Künstlern und Konsumenten idealisiert.Baudelaire, Picasso und Dickens waren begeistert, künstlerische Inspiration mithilfe des blauen Rauches zu bekommen.
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The Opium War : drugs, dreams and the making of China
Details the 1839 Opium War and the red tape, incompetence, and political cronyism that surrounded China's first conflict with the West and how these events fueled the foundation for modern Chinese nationalism.
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Merchants of War and Peace
Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and cultural conflicts between ‘progressive’ Britain and ‘backward’ China. Instead, it argues that the war was started by a group of British merchants in the Chinese port of Canton in the 1830s, known as the ‘Warlike party’. Living in a period when British knowledge of China was growing rapidly, the Warlike party came to understand China’s weakness and its members returned to London to lobby for intervention until war broke out in 1839. However, the Warlike party did not get its way entirely. Another group of British merchants known in Canton as the ‘Pacific party’ opposed the war. In Britain, the anti-war movement gave the conflict its infamous name, the ‘Opium War’, which has stuck ever since. Using materials housed in the National Archives, UK, the First Historical Archives of China, the National Palace Museum, the British Library, SOAS Library, and Cambridge University Library, this meticulously researched and lucid volume is a new history of the cause of the First Opium War.
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Opium
Opium, einst fur rituelle Zwecke verwendet, ist eine Substanz, die Schmerzen dampft und Zugang zu einer kunstlichen Welt bietet. Lange wurde es von Kunstlern und Konsumenten idealisiert. Baudelaire, Picasso und Dickens waren begeistert, kunstlerische Inspiration mithilfe des blauen Rauches zu bekommen. Entweder als heilige Droge oder schlimmstes Gift bekannt, wurde Opium in Grobritannien schnell beliebt und ein wichtes Handelsprodukt mit dem Kaiserreich China. Dieses illustrierte Buch stellt die Geschichte und quasi-religiosen Riten des Opiumkonsums dar.
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The Afghanistan poppy eradication campaign : accounts from the Black Hawk Counter-Narcotics Infantry Kandak Team in Helmand Province
\"The 16-man Black Hawk Counter Narcotics Infantry Team served as an advisory and training unit for the Afghanistan National Army during a poppy eradication operation in Helmand province in 2008 and 2009. This book chronicles their mission in a little known theater of the Afghanistan War\"-- Provided by publisher.
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