Smoke And Ashes : Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh

Smoke And Ashes : Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh'A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh's tentacular history embraces opium's entanglement with furniture, architecture, gardens and its role in modern wars . . . But it's Ghosh's big picture thinking that has made his nonfiction so influential . . . A huge achievement' The New York Times Book Review From the nineteenth century the British reaped huge profits by exporting vast quantities of opium from India, waged wars to defend

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