3 Review(s)

excellent author and a first rate book with publicity potential. ground breaking: makes connections between empire and the traffic of drugs in general from tobacco, sugar, alchohol, tea and opium. topical: drug use and trade, and comparative: looks at opium in relation to other drug trades: their socio-political and economic ramifications. up-to date: brings together recent research. broad picture from 1750 - 1950: no single book covers this period. Begins with first evidence of human involvement with the drug before it becomes part of the India China trade.