Opium : uncovering the politics of the poppy / by Chouvy, Pierre-Arnaud

Table of Contents: “…Opium: a Drug in Motion through Time and Space -- Opium and Heroin in Asia: Early History and Geopolitics -- Opium and Heroin in Asia: The Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent -- All-Time Highs and Lows -- In and Out of the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent -- War, Drugs, and the War on Drugs -- Opium Poppy Cultivation -- Successes and Failures -- Drug Trafficking Routes (Maps).…”
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Opium. by Wigal, Donald

Subjects: “…Opium History.…”
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Opium. by Wigal, Donald

Table of Contents: “…Anmachen: Einleitung; Zum Einstieg: das Schöne und Gefährliche; Die Entdeckung des Opiums:Hippokrates war hip; Dem Geld hinterher: Die Opiumkriege; II. …”
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Opium : reality's dark dream / by Dormandy, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…-- The tincture and the powder -- On the banks of the Ganges -- The Turkish connection -- Romantic opium -- The pleasure dome of Xanadu -- The opium eaters -- The people -- A salve for all ailments -- THE ESSENCE -- The shape of dreams -- The most wicked of wars: The Celestial Kingdom, The First Opium War, The Second Opium War -- The Yellow Peril -- Doctors rule -- American voices -- Nervous waste -- A heroic substance -- The birth of a crusade -- War and Peace (of sorts) -- Victims and survivors -- Unholy alliances -- Junkies -- Guardians of the law -- Zero tolerance -- God's own medicine -- Treatments and cures -- Life and death of a drug lord -- The making of a modern narco-state -- New trails: old tribulations.…”
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Opium : the flowers of evil / by Wigal, Donald, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Turning On: IntroductionThe Beautiful -- and Dangerous; Discovering Opium: Hippocrates Was Hip; Follow the Money: The Opium Wars; II. …”
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Opium : les fleurs du mal. by Wigal, Donald

Table of Contents: “…Débuter : Introduction; Allumer : La Beauté du danger; La Découverte de l'opium : Hippocrate était hip; Suivez l'argent : Les Guerres de l'Opium; II. …”
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Courtesans and opium : romantic illusions of the fool of Yangzhou / by Hanshangmengren, active 19th century

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Opium and empire : the lives and careers of William Jardine and James Matheson / by Grace, Richard J., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: The Scotland of Their Birth -- 1 Origins -- 2 Sailing from London to Canton -- 3 The Sirens of Commerce -- 4 The Heirs of Cox and Beale -- 5 Doing Business at Creek Hong -- 6 Charting New Waters -- 7 The Partners Apart -- 8 Approaching the Showdown in China -- 9 Jardine's Farewell and Matheson's Great Headache -- 10 Jardine's and Matheson's Roles in the Opium War -- 11 Their Lives after China -- 12 Sir James Matheson, Laird of Lewis -- Postlude: Gentlemanly Capitalists?…”
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Opium habit : with suggestions as to the remedy / by Day, Horace B., 1819-1870

Subjects: “…Opium abuse United States.…”
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Opium regimes : China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Opium's history in China / Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi -- Opium for China : the British connection / Gregory Blue -- From peril to profit : opium in late-Edo to Meiji eyes / Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi -- Drugs, taxes, and Chinese capitalism in Southeast Asia / Carl A. …”
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Opium's orphans : the 200-year history of the war on drugs / by Caquet, P. E.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- The rise of control. Forbidden cities -- Opium wars -- Paradise lost? -- Shanghai and the Hague -- Prohibition triumphant. …”
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Opium and the people : opiate use in nineteenth-century England / by Berridge, Virginia

Subjects: “…Opium abuse England History 19th century. sh2008108663…”

The Truth About Opium : Being a Refutation of the Fallacies of the Anti-Opium Society and a Defence of the Indo-China Opium Trade. by Brereton, William H.

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Crusaders Against Opium : Protestant Missionaries in China, 1874-1917. by Lodwick, Kathleen L.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: Opium in China in the Late Nineteenth Century; TWO: Missionaries Organize to Oppose Opium; THREE: The Pro-Opium Forces and Government Investigations; FOUR: The Anti-Opium Lobby Comes of Age; FIVE: Success and Failures of Opium Suppression; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.…”
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Crusaders Against Opium : Protestant Missionaries in China, 1874-1917. by Lodwick, Kathleen L.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: Opium in China in the Late Nineteenth Century; TWO: Missionaries Organize to Oppose Opium; THREE: The Pro-Opium Forces and Government Investigations; FOUR: The Anti-Opium Lobby Comes of Age; FIVE: Success and Failures of Opium Suppression; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.…”
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History of the Opium problem : the assault on the East, ca. 1600-1950 / by Derks, Hans, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…PREFACE; PREFACE; Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES, FIGURES and MAPS; LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES, FIGURES and MAPS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PART ONE THE OPIUM PROBLEM; INTRODUCTION; THE POLITICS OF GUILT; THE "ORIGINAL SIN"; CONCLUSIONs; PART TWO THE BRITISH ASSAULT; the actual sins; A Private English Asian Trading Company; Opium on a List; A Moral Question; TEA FOR OPIUM Vice Versa; An Analysis from Within; The Bullion Game; The Decision; Opium Shipping; Opium Smuggling; Opium Corruption; Religion as Opium; Opium Banking in a Crown Colony; Exorbitant Opium Revenues.…”
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. by Quincey, Thomas De

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- TO THE READER -- PRELIMINARY CONFESSIONS -- PART II -- THE PLEASURES OF OPIUM -- INTRODUCTION TO THE PAINS OF OPIUM -- THE PAINS OF OPIUM -- May 1818 -- June 1819 -- APPENDIX -- Copyright.…”
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A state built on sand : how opium undermined Afghanistan / by Mansfield, David (Consultant)

Table of Contents: “…IntroductionStatebuilding in Afghanistan; Opium Production, Policy and Efforts at Control; Conclusion; 6. …”
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The Chinese and opium under the Republic : worse than floods and wild beasts / by Baumler, Alan, 1965-

Subjects: “…Opium trade China.…”
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The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes. by Estate, The Arthur Waley

“…China History Opium War, 1840-1842.…”
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The golden triangle : forbidden land of opium / by Hollander, Neil

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Opium and empire in Southeast Asia : regulating consumption in British Burma / by Wright, Ashley, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Fashioning of Opium Policy in Arakan and Tenasserim -- 2. Regulating opium in British Burma, 1852-1885 -- 3. …”
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Substance abuse. Opiates 1.

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Drugs in Afghanistan : opium, outlaws and scorpion tales / by Macdonald, Dave, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Scorpion tales -- A nations in anguish -- Opium cultivators -- Heroin producers and traffickers -- Outlaws and warlords -- Drug use in Afghanistan's history -- Neighbours and refugees -- A tale of two opiums -- Hashish and hakims -- Pharmaceuticals and chemical cocktails -- Masters of the universe: other drugs and future dimensions -- Scorpion tails.…”
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Spectrophotometric determination of the principal alkaloids of opium / by Dyer, Merton Stuart

Subjects: “…Opium. sh 85095095…”

The opium debate and Chinese exclusion laws in the nineteenth-century American West / by Ahmad, Diana L., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The poppy problem comes to the West -- Into the West's caves of oblivion -- Threats to body and behavior -- Excluding the dual dilemma -- Smoking-opium's continued presence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The opium debate and Chinese exclusion laws in the nineteenth-century American West / by Ahmad, Diana L., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The poppy problem comes to the West -- Into the West's caves of oblivion -- Threats to body and behavior -- Excluding the dual dilemma -- Smoking-opium's continued presence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Intoxicating Manchuria : alcohol, opium, and culture in China's northeast / by Smith, Norman

Table of Contents: “…Alcohol and opium in China -- Manchurian context -- Evaluating alcohol -- Selling slcohol, selling modernity -- Writing intoxicant consumption -- The hostess scare -- Reasoning addiction, taking the cures -- The opium monopoly's "interesting discussion" -- Conclusion -- Glossary.…”
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Merchants of War and Peace : British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War. by Chen, Song-Chuan

“…China History Opium War, 1840-1842.…”
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Le souffle du coquelicot : Un récit thérapeutique pour vaincre ses démons. by Claeys, Marie-Alice

Subjects: “…Literature -- Psychological aspects.;Opium poppy -- History.;Psychoanalysis and literature.…”
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Dark paradise : a history of opiate addiction in America by Courtwright, David T., 1952-

Subjects: “…Opium abuse United States History. sh 85095096…”

60 minutes. Addicted to heroin

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Confessions of an English opium-eater and other writings / by De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859

Table of Contents: “…Confessions of an English opium-eater -- On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth -- Suspiria de profundis -- The English mail coach.…”
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Brief History Of Bali : Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of a Pacific Paradise. by Hanna, Willard A.

Table of Contents: “…Desertion of Roodenburg, Claaszoon and Jan the PortugueseHeemskerck Expedition of 1601; Roodenburg as Interpreter; Dewa Agung's Letter to Prince Maurits; VOC Factory and Free Burghers from Batavia; Trade in Slaves and Opium; Missions of Oosterwijk and Bacharach; Balinese Community in Batavia; Senopati; Balinese-Javanese Wars; CHAPTER 3 Recruitment, Trade and Travel (1800-1830); Distant Effects of Napoleonic Wars; Daendels' Design for Recruitment; van der Wahl's Visit; English Occupation; Raffles and Crawfurd; Dutch Démarches of 1817, 1824, 1826; Kuta Post.…”
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Dark paradise : a history of opiate addiction in America by Courtwright, David T., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The extent of opiate addiction -- Addiction to opium and morphine -- Addiction to smoking opium -- Addiction to heroin -- The transformation of the opiate addict -- Heroin in postwar American -- The drug wars.…”
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Poppies, politics, and power : Afghanistan and the global history of drugs and diplomacy by Bradford, James Tharin, 1982-

Subjects: “…Opium trade Afghanistan History.…”
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Baudelaire in Chains : a Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict. by Hilton, Frank

Table of Contents: “…False Trails; 3. Hashish; 4. Opium; 5. Growing Up; 6. On the Town; 7. Running Wild; 8. …”
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Afghanistan : narcotics and U.S. policy by Blanchard, Christopher M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Afghanistan's opium economy -- Narcotics and security -- The international policy response -- Issues for Congress.…”
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Hooked illegal drugs and how they got that way

Table of Contents: “…Disc 1. Marijuana/opium, morphine and heroin -- Disc 2. Cocaine/LSD, Ecstasy & the raves.…”

Feasibility of using mycoherbicides for controlling drug crops

Table of Contents: “…Crivellia Papaveracea and Brachycladium Papaveris as candidate biological control agents against Opium Poppy --…”
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