In this first truly cross-cultural study of opium, Keith McMahon considers the perspectives of both smokers and non-smokers from China and the Euro-West and fro

To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium—a drug that turned

International contributors in reprinted papers from 1955-1996 overview the European impact in America and Africa (ten chapters), and the European impact on Asia

Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was intro