Description for Drugs and Empires
Hardcover. Drugs and Empires introduces new research that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world. It re-examines controversies about such issues as the Asian opium trade or the sale of alcohol in Africa and addresses new areas of research, including the impact of imperial drugs profits on American history. Editor(s): Mills, James; Barton, Patricia. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW; JKVG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Drugs and Empires introduces new research that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world. It re-examines controversies about such issues as the Asian opium trade or the sale of alcohol in Africa and addresses new areas of research, including the impact of imperial drugs profits on American history.
Drugs and Empires introduces new research that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world. It re-examines controversies about such issues as the Asian opium trade or the sale of alcohol in Africa and addresses new areas of research, including the impact of imperial drugs profits on American history.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230516519
SKU
V9780230516519
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About N/A
PATRICA BARTON Research Fellow at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, University of Strathclyde, UK FRANK DIKOTTER Professor of Modern Chinese History at SOAS, London, UK AMAR FAROOQUI Reader in History, Hans Raj College, University of Delhi, India MARC JASON GILBERT Professor in the Department of History, North Georgia College & State University, USA KELLY GRAY ... Read more
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