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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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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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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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Poppies, Politics, and Power
Historians have long neglected Afghanistan's broader history when portraying the opium industry. But inPoppies, 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 sheer breadth of the twentieth-century Afghanistan experience. Rather than byproducts of a failed contemporary system, argues Bradford, drugs, especially opium, were critical components in the formation and failure of the Afghan state.
In this history of drugs and drug control in Afghanistan, Bradford shows us how the country moved from licit supply of the global opium trade to one of the major suppliers of hashish and opium through changes in drug control policy shaped largely by the outside force of the United States.Poppies, Politics, and Powerbreaks the conventional modes of national histories that fail to fully encapsulate the global nature of the drug trade. By providing a global history of opium within the borders of Afghanistan, Bradford demonstrates that the country's drug trade and the government's position on that trade were shaped by the global illegal market and international efforts to suppress it. By weaving together this global history of the drug trade and drug policy with the formation of the Afghan state and issues within Afghan political culture, Bradford completely recasts the current Afghan, and global, drug trade.
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