Opium's long shadow : from Asian revolt to global drug control /

Opium's long shadow : from Asian revolt to global drug control /

The League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, created in 1920, reversed almost eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking, which was by far the largest state-backed drug trade in the age of empire. Opponents of opium had long struggled to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rimner, Steffen, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
League of Nations. > Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs.
Opium trade > History > 20th century.
Drug control > International cooperation > History > 20th century.
Social reformers > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.

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