Opium
Provides a detailed look at opium today in the context of its long history of use as a therapeutic and recreational drug. Opium use dates back 7000 years¿longer than any other drug. This book looks at social changes and how they have affected perc...
Opium Poppy Garden
A complete guide to cultivating and harvesting the beautiful opium poppy. The opium poppy is a potent plant that has been cultivated and used for thousands of years to alleviate suffering. The use of plant substances as alternatives to synthetic m...
English Opium-Eater
Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer. Thomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods - including Willi...
Opium and Absinthe
From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Poison comes another spellbinding historical novel full of intrigue, occult mystery, and unexpected twists. New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke's sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two ...
Hashish, Wine, Opium
Among the earliest artistic accounts of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautier and Baudelaire's own involvement in the Club of Assassins, who met under the auspices of Dr Moreau to inv...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a p...
The Social Life of Opium in China
In a remarkable and broad-ranging narrative, Yangwen Zheng's book explores the history of opium consumption in China from 1483 to the late twentieth century. The story begins in the mid-Ming dynasty, when opium was sent as a gift by vassal states ...
Opium für Ovid
Der Text handelt weniger von den bekannten und immer wieder erzählten Bereichen Liebe, Familie, Karriere etc, sondern vor allem von namenlosen Lebensbereichen. Zum Beispiel erleben sie Veränderungen des Körpers, die oft als 'Verlust' definiert werden, als Verlust an Schönheit oder als Krankheit. Der Autorin geht nicht um den Verlust, sondern um Verwandlung, um Metamorphosen. Ein poetischer Zeitbericht, der aus zahllosen individuellen Momenten besteht. Auch ein Versuch, der Erotik ihre vielschichtigen Bilder zurückzugeben, Empfindungen und Ereignisse zu erzählen, die nicht mit 'Beziehungen' zu tun haben.. Jede Figur bleibt in mehrere Richtungen offen, und diese 'offenen' Stellen der einen Figur werden von anderen weiter verfolgt. In Anlehnung an Ovids Metamorphosen heißen die Frauen Leda Arachne Daphne Latona ScyIIa Salmacis Coronis Clymene In Venus -Limaea Niobe . Anaxarete Seme/e Ceres Pomona Asterie Thisbe Iuno Ocyroe Philomela und Iphis.
Opium: A History
A fascinating chronicle of opium's effect on the world's history and culture discusses its prehistoric use in religious rituals, its role in international wars and in great art, and the current state of the powerful heroin industry. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. LJ. K. NYT.
Creating the Opium War
Creating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War - a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and t...
Alcohol and Opium in the Old West
This book explores the role and influence of drink and drugs (primarily opium) in the Old West, which for this book is considered to be America west of the Mississippi from the California gold rush of the 1840s to the closing of the Western Fronti...
Opium War Through Chinese Eyes
A Stanford University Press classic.
Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy
Drug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book ta...
Commissioner Lin and the Opium War
The Canton trade for almost a century had been the sole regulated channel between China and the Western world; as such, it had become the focus of many conflicts. Mr. Chang examines the development of this trading system and the British trade in C...
Opium War
'A gripping read as well as an important one.' Rana Mitter, Guardian In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureauc...
Opium of the Intellectuals
Raymond Aron's 1955 masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, is one of the great works of twentieth- century political reflection. Aron shows how noble ideas can slide into the tyranny of "secular religion" and emphasizes how politica...
Opium
Is opium a vile curse on society, a blessed medicine from God, or possibly both? This fresh history offers surprising new insights. Opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin have destroyed, corrupted, and killed individuals, families, communit...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on "subtle and mighty opium". At once moving and ...
