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Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952
Timothy Brook (Ed.)
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Paperback. Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. This title shows that the opium trade was not purely a British operation but involved Chinese merchants, Chinese state agents, and Japanese imperialists as well. Editor(s): Brook, Timothy; Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi. Num Pages: 458 pages, 15 b/w illustrations, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; GTB; HBG; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 682.
Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around China. Opium Regimes integrates the pioneering research of sixteen scholars to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation but involved Chinese merchants, Chinese state agents, and Japanese imperialists as well. The book presents a coherent historical arc that moves from British imperialism in the nineteenth century, to Chinese ... Read more
Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around China. Opium Regimes integrates the pioneering research of sixteen scholars to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation but involved Chinese merchants, Chinese state agents, and Japanese imperialists as well. The book presents a coherent historical arc that moves from British imperialism in the nineteenth century, to Chinese ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
458
Condition
New
Number of Pages
458
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520222366
SKU
V9780520222366
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About Timothy Brook (Ed.)
Timothy Brook is Professor of History at the University of Toronto and the author most recently of the prizewinning The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China (California, 1998). Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi is Professor of History at York University in Toronto and the author of Japanese Loyalism Reconstrued (1995), among other works.
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