Opium's orphans : the 200-year history of the war on drugs /

"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 le...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Caquet, P. E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2022.
Subjects:
Drug control > History.
Drug abuse > History.
Drugs of abuse > History.
Drug traffic > History.
Opium abuse > History.
Lutte antidrogue > Histoire.
Toxicomanie > Histoire.
Drogues > Trafic > Histoire.
Opiomanie > Histoire.
Drug abuse
Drug control
Drug traffic
Drugs of abuse
Opium abuse
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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