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Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

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#3774 of 3,809 books · #1177 in History

Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize (2024).

From the nineteenth century the British reaped huge profits by exporting vast quantities of opium from India, waged wars to defend its access to markets, and created a devastating addiction crisis in China. A sweeping story of greed and power, Smoke and Ashes reveals how opium created the wealth of modern cities like Mumbai, Singapore and Shanghai, as well as many of America's most powerful families and institutions, and is a part of Ghosh's personal history.

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Publisher
Hachette UK
ISBN-13
9781529349276
Genre
History
Topics
Opium tradeBritish colonialism in AsiaGlobal economic history

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