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The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Diana L. Ahmad
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Description for The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 236.
America’s current ""war on drugs"" is not the nation’s first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West. Although China faced its own epidemic of opium addiction, only a very small minority of Chinese immigrants in America were actually involved in the opium business. It was in Anglo communities that the use of opium soon spread and this growing use was deemed a threat to the nation’s entrepreneurial spirit and to its growing mportance as a world economic and military power. The Opium Debate examines how the spread of ... Read more
America’s current ""war on drugs"" is not the nation’s first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West. Although China faced its own epidemic of opium addiction, only a very small minority of Chinese immigrants in America were actually involved in the opium business. It was in Anglo communities that the use of opium soon spread and this growing use was deemed a threat to the nation’s entrepreneurial spirit and to its growing mportance as a world economic and military power. The Opium Debate examines how the spread of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874178449
SKU
V9780874178449
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About Diana L. Ahmad
Diana L. Ahmad received her PhD at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is a University of Missouri Curators’ Teaching Professor of History at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, where she specializes in the history of the American West, the Pacific, and Modern East Asia. She is the author of The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the ... Read more
Reviews for The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West
“While there have been some studies recently on the history of addictive drugs, none have studied the opium trade in the U.S. with this detail, and none have related that topic to the remarkable hostility against Chinese immigrants. . . . The book helps us understand one of the most revealing, and strangest, episodes in the racial history of the ... Read more