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   Feb 13, 2024 · The “Opium Department” took control of the details of the business, especially in the East, forcing more than a million peasant households to plant a white opium poppy monoculture.

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2. shepherd.com › bookshelf › opiumThe most recommended opium books (picked by 35 experts)

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   The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and…. Preview. Amazon. Mycroft and Sherlock. By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anna Waterhouse.

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4. www.washingtonpost.com › books › 2024/02/08Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Smoke and Ashes’ is a riveting history of ...

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   Feb 8, 2024 · A riveting new history of opium, a lucrative and destructive flower. Amitav Ghosh’s sweeping, forcefully written ‘Smoke and Ashes’ covers centuries in the life of the plant. Opium poppy and ...

5. www.worldhistory.org › review › 454Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh (Book Review)

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   Jun 3, 2024 · Written in engaging language, Smoke and Ashes is a scholarly follow-up to the author’s famous Ibis trilogy, a collection of fiction that uses the opium trade as its backdrop. In Smoke and Ashes, the author draws on his years-long research into opium supplemented by his family history, personal travels, cross-cultural experience, and expertise ...

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6. thetyee.ca › Culture › 2024/03/19What Opium’s History Tells Us about Today’s Drug War

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   Mar 19, 2024 · Having written three novels on the 19th-century opium trade, Amitav Ghosh revisits the subject in his 2024 book Smoke and Ashes, a non-fiction account that draws on very recent research. Opium’s ...

7. www.ft.com › content › 294f8796-d121-4da8-b553-68410Smoke and Ashes review — Amitav Ghosh on the opium trade

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   Feb 9, 2024 · In effect, the British empire became a narco-state, argues Amitav Ghosh in Smoke and Ashes, a propulsive and revelatory history of how opium, a tool of colonial capitalism, was used to pummel ...

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   What did the Opium Department do?

   • The “Opium Department” took control of the details of the business, especially in the East, forcing more than a million peasant households to plant a white opium poppy monoculture. At one end of this continuum of stable production and supply was a sophisticated bureaucracy of informants and strict quotas; on the other were fortresslike factories.

   Book Review: ‘Smoke and Ashes,’ by Amitav Ghosh - The New York Times

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   Why is opium important?

   • Opium, long cultivated in modest quantities in Asia and the Middle East and used medicinally as a painkiller and sedative throughout human history, became a favoured diplomatic gift as the Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish sought to cut deals and boost trade across the Indian Ocean.

   Smoke and Ashes review — Amitav Ghosh on the opium trade

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   Who benefited most from the opium trade?

   • Ghosh’s work echoes developmental economists such as Jonathan Lehne, who has documented opium-growing communities' lower literacy and economic progress compared to their neighbors. Ghosh states that after Britain, “the country that benefited most from the opium trade” with China, was the United States.

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   What is Ghosh's history of the opium industry?

   • Still, Ghosh’s impressive history of the opium industry is an attempt to acknowledge “the historical agency of botanical matter” — to understand the drug “as an actor in its own right.” At first, the opium poppy took a back seat to another history-defining plant: tea.

   Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Smoke and Ashes’ is a riveting history of opium - The

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   Did opium change the world?

   • SMOKE AND ASHES: Opium’s Hidden Histories, by Amitav Ghosh Biographies of humble things that their authors claimed had “changed the world” — chronometers, salt, potatoes and even the color mauve — were a turn-of-the-21st-century publishing phenomenon. Looking back, they seem fixated on European heroes and their achievements.

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   What are the hidden histories of opium?

   • Opium’s hidden histories are also the hidden histories of the British Empire and the United States as the oldest, most successful drug cartels the world has ever seen. Ghosh previously wrote The Nutmeg’s Curse, arguing that capitalism derives from a 17th-century European belief that nothing has value except as it benefits white male Europeans.

   What Opium’s History Tells Us about Today’s Drug War

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9. www.cbc.ca › books › books-on-opium-trade-indigenousBooks on opium trade, Indigenous sovereignty and gun control ...

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   Aug 6, 2024 · Books on the opium trade, Indigenous sovereignty and gun control have made the longlist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize. The $75,000 US ($104,055 Cdn) prize annually recognizes the best ...