Opium: A History, Paperback

A compelling and comprehensive history of opium, a drug that has both healed and harmed since civilization began.

Reducere. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a health...

Reducere. A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium WarsIn this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839-1842 and 1856-1860 between Brit...

An exploration of the first Opium War between Britain and China, which began in 1839. Over the past 170 years, this strange tale of misunderstandin...

Reducere. Following the harrowing journey of Lady Lee Su-Mei and her family, Robert Wang's debut novel is a historical drama told from dual perspectives--Chi...

The Opium War of 1839-42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and it...

Reducere. DescriptionA woman dies in a burglary in Fitzrovia. A man is murdered in an opium den in Limehouse. Gutsy Fleet Street reporter Penny Green suspect...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Qing Dynasty, then keep reading...Succeeding the Ming dynasty in 1644, the Qing emperors man...

Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History tells the story of modern China from the Opium Wars in the mid-nineteenth century to the Xi Jinping era. Usin...

Reducere. It is a mistake to think that wars only concern armies involved in active engagement. Nothing is farther from the truth. The real forces of evil wa...

Reducere. Description"There can only be one Tai-Pan." Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into ...

Reducere. "Drugs as Weapons Against Us" meticulously details how a group of opium-trafficking families came to form an American oligarchy and eventually achi...

Reducere. In old Omaha, the scent of opium wafted through saloon doors, while prostitutes openly solicited customers. When the St. Elmo theater ran short of ...

Offers an analysis of the Chinese Armies that fought a series of increasingly fractious wars over nearly a century. Beginning with a run through of...

This intoxicating look at the history of drug regulation in Canada reveals how a variety of social and political forces converged at the turn of th...

Reducere. DescriptionForgotten events, buildings, businesses and people helped shape Yakima. Vice dominated the city's early landscape when it was called Nor...

Reducere. DescriptionTucked away in the northwestern frontier, Portland offered all the best vices: opium dreams, gambling, cheap prostitutes, and drunken br...

Reducere. Ellen LaMotte (1873 - 1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. She began her nursing career as a tuberculosis nurse in Baltimore and the...

Reducere. DescriptionShute's speculative glance into the future of the British Empire. An elderly clergyman stationed in the Australian bush is called to the...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of East Asia, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: History of China: A Cap...

Reducere. When Pedro Men ndez de Avil s founded St. Augustine in 1565, his New World survival kit included gambling, liquor and ladies for hire. For the next...

Reducere. "Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia." --"Christian Sci...

Reducere. Creating an identity is crucial for survival, whether of individuals, countries or commercial products. Carefully selected elements combine positiv...

Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

DescriptionMaritime navigational tools could find latitude, but finding longitude remained elusive until Harrison developed the reliable sea clock,...

This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story b...

Publisher: Elsevier Science & TechnologyAuthor(s): Vasanth (Anesthesiologist, Mercy Health, Cincinnati, OH, USA) KumarIllustration(s): Approx. 120 ...

Reducere. An illustrated cultural history of drug use from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals - Featuring artwork from...

Reducere. On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and populari...

Reducere. Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunken sailors, gaudy hookers, and back room abortion...

Reducere. ``Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read.`` --Asian Review of Books on Division to Unificat...

The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against othe...

DescriptionEast India Company and Dutch East India Company* * *Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside * * * The East India Compa...

Contributor(s): Author: Tonio AndradeThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries befo...

Reducere. Rin's story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The Poppy War--an epic fantasy combining the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping w...

Reducere. Tintin travels to China in a tale considered Herge's first masterpiece, as well as Tintin's only foray into actual history, the Sino-Japanese confl...

Reducere. The small things that had great historical consequences..."Heart-stopping, compelling, and fun!" Win Blevins, New York Times Bestselling AuthorHow ...

DescriptionViolet McNeal ran away from her family's rural Minnesota farm in the late 1880s and fell under the spell of conman and patent medicine "...

Reducere. One night, the English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was ill! So ingesting, opium based a medication; while reading a book on the Great Em...

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to kee...

Reducere. THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF THE RIVETING NEW THRILLER SERIES BY FORMER GREEN BERET AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JASON KASPER"David Rivers is back...

Reducere. In The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven Mark W. Driscoll examines nineteenth-century Western imperialism in Asia and the devastating effects of "climat...

Reducere. "A captivating memoir of a courageous survivor" (Publishers Weekly) and "a window onto the panorama of modern Korean history" (St. Petersburg Times...

Reducere. The Strength of the Pack documents previously unknown aspects of the history of federal drug law enforcement, from the formation of the Bureau of N...

Reducere. Richard Dillon, one of California's premier historians, tells the compelling story of San Francisco's exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlu...