| Description |
1 online resource (400 pages) |
| Contents |
Prologue -- The rise of control. Forbidden cities -- Opium wars -- Paradise lost? -- Shanghai and the Hague -- Prohibition triumphant. Gangsters -- Drug prohibition at its zenith -- Overreach -- The system challenged. Drug lords -- The consensus crumbles -- Opiate overdose -- Closing observations -- Appendix I. Opium smoker numbers in nineteenth-century China -- Appendix II. League-era opium regime statistics -- Appendix III. Post-war drug seizures |
| Summary |
"Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the 'war on drugs'. A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design. The war on drugs did not originate in Europe or the USA, and even less with President Nixon, but in China. Two Opium Wars, followed by Western attempts to atone for them, gave birth to an anti-narcotics order that has come to span the globe. But has the war on drugs succeeded? As opioid deaths and cartel violence run rampant, contestation becomes more vocal and marijuana is slated for legalization in many places, Opium's Orphans proposes that it is time to go back to the drawing board."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
P. E. Caquet is an associate at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed January 25, 2023) |
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Drug control -- History
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Drug abuse -- History
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Drugs of abuse -- History
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Drug traffic -- History
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Opium abuse -- History
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Drug abuse.
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Drug control.
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Drug traffic.
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Drugs of abuse.
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Opium abuse.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781789145595 |
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1789145597 |
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