Opium : a history
Title:
Opium : a history
Author:
Booth, Martin.
ISBN:
9780312206673
9780312186432
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Edition:
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 1999, ©1996.
Physical Description:
xii, 381 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
Originally published: London : Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Contents:
Raw opium -- The discovery of dreams -- Pleasure-domes in Xanadu -- Poverty, potions and poppy-heads -- heroic substances -- God's own medicine -- The fantasy traders -- The government of opium -- Coolies and conferences -- Junkies and the living dead -- DORA, Isabella and Olivia -- Carpets, condoms and cats -- Enter the mobster -- Soldiers and secrets -- Warlords, barons and laundrymen -- Bacteria and the $1,000.000 bathtub -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
The book traces the drug's astounding impact on world culture--from its religious use by prehistoric peoples to its influence on the imaginations of the Romantic writers.
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