Opium A History.epub

uthor(s): Martin Booth
Publisher:
Date: 1999-06-12 Format: EPUB Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 0312206674
Pages: 400 OCR: Quality: ISBN13: 9780312206673


This definitive history of one of the most notorious drugs of all time traces opium's astounding impact on world culture--from its religious use by prehistoric peoples to its influence on the imaginations of the Romantic writers from the earliest medical science to the Sino-British opium wars. of photos.