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Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952

Book by Timothy Brook, Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi; University of California Press, 2000

Subjects:

China--Relations--Great Britain, China--Relations--Japan, Drug Traffic--China--History, Great Britain--Relations--China, Japan--Relations--China, Narcotics, Control Of--China--History, Opium Trade--China--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

symbiosis of the opium and tea trades makes it worth noting that 1890 was the...Rev. Arthur Moule, a forceful critic of the British opium trade, did estimate that in 1882 imported opium was equivalent to a third of the native crop ( New China...
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Opium and Foreign Policy: The Anglo-American Search for Order in Asia, 1912-1954

Book by William O. Walker III; University of North Carolina Press, 1991

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Great Britain--Foreign Relations, Opium Trade--East Asia--History--20th Century, United States--Foreign Relations

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...through Tonkin assured Canton a regular opium supply. 28 With its hold on power fairly...after mid- 1928, the KMT promulgated an Opium Suppression Act and Regulations that were...November in Nanking, the government held an Opium Suppression Conference. Garfield Huang...
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Opium as an International Problem: The Geneva Conferences

Book by W. W. Willoughby; John Hopkins Press, 1925

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Opium

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Hague Opium Convention, analysis of, 28 ff.; present status of...Hashish, 251 , 374 ff. Heroin, 263 , 408 ff. Hongkong opium in, 11 , 88 ff., 189 , 194 . Import of opium, 191 ff. Import certificates, 391 . Inchcape Report...
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Opium and Empire: Chinese Society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910

Book by Carl A. Trocki; Cornell University Press, 1990

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Alien Labor, Chinese--Singapore--History--19th Century, Chinese--Singapore--History--19th Century, Opium Trade--Singapore--History--19th Century, Singapore--Social Conditions

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...The "savings" problem was solved by opium. If two out of the four dollars that each...paid monthly could be "recycled" through opium consumption, then the equation would be...figures do not include the cost of the opium and the general charges of the farm, but...
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The Opium Economy in Afghanistan: An International Problem

Book by Office on Drugs and Crime; United Nations, 2003

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Opium Trade--Afghanistan

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Adulterants are often added to opium by both cultivators and traders. This...low amounts of morphine extracted from opium seized by the authorities in the Islamic...countries to INCB, using licitly produced opium.33 Adulterants of wet opium in the south...

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Journal Articles on: opium

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Opium and Empire: Some Evidence from Colonial-Era Asian Stock and Commodity Markets

Journal article by Warren Bailey, Lan Truong; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 32, 2001

Subjects:

Asia--International trade, China--International trade, Commerce--History, Imperialism--Economic aspects, International trade--Asia, Malaya--International trade, Opium trade--Asia

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Opium and Empire: Some Evidence from Colonial...the article assesses the impact of the opium trade on the economies of colonial Malaya...international trade are significantly correlated with opium price changes, as are prices for labour...
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British Policy Discussions on the Opium Question in the Federated Shan States, 1937-1948

Journal article by Robert Maule; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 33, 2002

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British in foreign countries--20th century, Myanmar--20th century, Narcotics, Control of--Myanmar, Opium trade--Myanmar

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British policy discussions on the opium question in the Federated Shan States...examined at many levels; however, the opium policy applied in the indirectly ruled...over the production and distribution of opium in the trans-Salween region of the States...
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Opium, Empire, and Modern History

Journal article by James L. Hevia; China Review International, Vol. 10, 2003

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Books--Book reviews, Britain's China Policy and the Opium Crisis: Balancing Drugs, Violence and National Honour, 1833-1840 (Book), Modern China and Opium: A Reader (Book), Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 (Book)--Book reviews, Opium, Empire, and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950 (Book)

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Opium, Empire, and Modern History. by James...Alan Baumler, editor. Modern China and Opium: A Reader. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan...Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, editors. Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839...
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Opium and the Beginnings of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia

Journal article by Carl A. Trocki; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 33, 2002

Subjects:

Capitalism--History, China--Economic aspects, Opium trade--Economic aspects, Southeast Asia--Economic aspects

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Opium and the beginnings of Chinese capitalism...article deals with the relationship between opium revenue farming and the development of capitalist...Southeast Asia. It examines the role which opium played in the transformation of all Asian...
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Opium-Reduction Programmes, Discourses of Addiction and Gender in Northwest Laos

Journal article by Paul T. Cohen, Chris Lyttleton; SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 17, 2002

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Detoxification (Substance abuse treatment)--Social aspects, Drug abuse--International aspects, Drug addicts--Demographic aspects, Ethnology--Analysis, Health care industry--Social aspects, Opium--Usage, Patriarchy--Social aspects, Poppies--Economic aspects, Shame--Social aspects, Social services industry--Management, Social services--Management

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Opium-Reduction Programmes, Discourses of Addiction...Laos. by Paul T. Cohen , Chris Lyttleton Opium use is widespread in northern provinces of...Golden Triangle". The cultivation of opium is associated with a number of highland ethnic...

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Magazine Articles on: opium

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Britain's Opium Wars

Magazine article by John Newsinger; Monthly Review, Vol. 49, October 1997

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China, Imperialism--Social aspects, Opium trade--Political aspects

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Britains Opium Wars. by John Newsinger It is a little...the world has ever seen. The smuggling of opium into China was by the 1830s a source of...overlooked in the history books where the opium trade is either played down or ignored altogether...
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Afghanistan's Opium Addiction: Afghanistan Is the World's First Narco-State, with One-Third Its GDP Dependent on Narcotics Sales

Magazine article by Robert Elliott; Security Management, Vol. 51, August 2007

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Drug abuse and crime, Opium--Laws, regulations and rules, Opium--Usage, Pharmaceutical industry--Industry sales and revenue, Pharmaceutical industry--Laws, regulations and rules

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Afghanistans Opium Addiction: Afghanistan Is the Worlds First...position as the worlds largest producer of the opium poppy and its heroin by-product. He...and Crime (UNODC), Afghanistans 2007 opium harvest is set to be bigger than last years...
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The Wars of the Poppies; Leslie Marchant Sees the Opium Wars as a Philosophical Clash between Two Cultures and Two Notions of Government and Society

Magazine article by Leslie Marchant; History Today, Vol. 52, May 2002

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China--Opium War, 1840-1842, International trade regulation--Political aspects, Opium trade--Political aspects, United Kingdom--Relations with China, War and society--Analysis

Collections: History, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the poppies; Leslie Marchant sees the Opium Wars as a philosophical clash between two...by Leslie Marchant THE ANGLO-CHINESE Opium Wars of 1839-42 and 1856-60, and the...China had the right to legislate against opium trafficking and usage in its own territory...
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Afghan Poppies Bloom: The War-Ravaged, Opium-Dependent Country Lives in Fear of a New Drug War

Magazine article by Christian Parenti; The Nation, Vol. 280, January 24, 2005

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Afghanistan--Economic aspects, Afghanistan--International trade, Opium poppy--Economic aspects

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...Afghan Poppies Bloom: The War-Ravaged, Opium-Dependent Country Lives in Fear of a...around here, his real business is farming opium poppy. Mr. Attocks land lies about an...again soared. Globally, Afghanistans opium business is estimated to be worth more...
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Drugs and Terror: Britain's Role; Exclusive Tony Blair's Ambition to Eradicate Opium Production in Afghanistan Has Failed Miserably. More Poppies Are Grown Than Ever, Financing the Taliban's Resurgence and Thus Fuelling the War on Terror

Magazine article by Misha Glenny; New Statesman, Vol. 135, October 9, 2006

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Military aspects, Colombia--Military aspects, Drug dealing--Economic aspects, Drug dealing--International aspects, Drug dealing--Political aspects, Drug traffic--Economic aspects, Drug traffic--International aspects, Drug traffic--Political aspects, Opium poppy--Economic aspects, Taliban--Economic aspects, Taliban--Military aspects, United Kingdom--Military policy

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...Exclusive Tony Blairs Ambition to Eradicate Opium Production in Afghanistan Has Failed Miserably...intimately bound up with the expansion of opium production in the province under the armed...in the New York Times. The figures for opium production in Afghanistan over the five...

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Newspaper Articles on: opium

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Opium on the Tweed

Newspaper article; Tweed Daily News (Tweed Heads, Australia), July 23, 2011

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Gray, Charles, Opium, Sugar industry, Sugarcane

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Opium on the Tweed. Byline: LOOKING BACK Di Millar BY 1870 the...would make a profit and by August 1871 a small plantation of opium poppy was being cultivated. From early times, opium was valued for its medicinal uses and, over the centuries...
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No Opium, No Money

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 3, 2009

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News agencies, Opium trade, The Associated Press

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No Opium, No Money. Byline: Rukmini Callimachi...currency was what grew in everyones backyard opium. When children felt like buying candy...fathers fields and returned with a few grams of opium folded inside a leaf. Their mothers collected...
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Afghan Opium Crop May Rise after "Cash Bonanza"

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 21, 2011

Subjects:

Opium trade, Opium--Prices and rates, United Nations

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Afghan Opium Crop May Rise after "Cash Bonanza". KABUL (Reuters) - Opium prices in Afghanistan more than doubled last year...up cultivation of the drug in 2011.Production of opium, a thick paste from poppy that is processed into...
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Opium Cultivation in Helmand Falls by Third but Stockpiles Grow

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 2, 2009

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Opium, Opium trade

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Opium Cultivation in Helmand Falls by Third but Stockpiles Grow. Byline: SAM MARSDEN Opium cultivation in the area of Afghanistan where...province. Some 90 per cent of the worlds opium comes from Afghanistan and Helmand supplied...
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Ending the Taliban's Money Stream; U.S. Should Buy Afghanistan's Opium

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 8, 2009

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Drug dealing, Drug traffic, Karzai, Hamid, Opium, Pharmaceutical industry

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...Stream; U.S. Should Buy Afghanistans Opium. Byline: James Nathan, SPECIAL TO THE...administration to bomb Afghanistans heroin labs and opium storehouses. The United States refused...agents in 2005 found more than nine tons of opium in the office of Sher Muhammad Akhundzada...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: opium

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Opium

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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OPIUM substance derived by collecting and drying the milky juice in the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy , Papaver somniferum. Opium varies in color from yellow to dark brown and has a characteristic...
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Opium Wars

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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OPIUM WARS 1839 42 and 1856 60, two wars between...cent., British merchants began smuggling opium into China in order to balance their purchases...enforced its prohibitions on the importation of opium by destroying at Guangzhou (Canton) a large...
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Morphine

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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MORPHINE principal derivative of opium , which is the juice in the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy , Papaver somniferum. It was first isolated from opium in 1803 by the German pharmacist F. W. A. Serturner, who named it after Morpheus...
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Afghanistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...other grains, fruits, and nuts. The opium poppy, grown mainly for the international...country is the worlds largest producer of opium. Grazing is also of great importance in...general collapse of Afghanistans industry. Opium, fruits and nuts, handwoven carpets...
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Drug Addiction and Drug Abuse

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...abuse in certain social contexts. In India opium has been used for centuries without becoming...kits of morphine and hypodermic needles. Opium dens flourished. By the early 1900s there...States were first established in 1875, when opium dens were outlawed in San Francisco. The...

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