Milk of paradise, a history of opium, Lucy Inglis
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Milk of paradise, a history of opium, Lucy Inglis
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
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Milk of paradise
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bibliography
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Lucy Inglis
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a history of opium
Summary
Opium is drug that has both healed and harmed since civilization began. It is bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain and it is hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand. In Milk of Paradise, cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes readers on an epic journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afghanistan, from Sanskrit to pop, from poppy tears to smack, from morphine to today's synthetic opiates. It is a tale of addiction, trade, crime, sex, war, literature, medicine and money. Above all, this account vividly shows that the history of opium is our history and it speaks to us of who we are
Table Of Contents
The ancient world -- 2. The Islamic golden age to the Renaissance -- 3. The silver triangle and the creation of Hong Kong -- 4. The Romantics meet modern science -- 5. The China crisis -- 6. The American disease -- 7. A new addiction, prohibition and the rise of the gangster -- 8. From the Somme to Saigon -- 9. Afghanistan -- 10. Heroin chic, HIV and generation oxy
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adult
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History of opium
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