Download or read book The Rise and Progress of British Opium Smuggling written by Robert Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The India China Opium Trade in the Nineteenth Century written by Hunt Janin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1823 to 1860 a fleet of small, fast brigs and schooners carried chests of opium from India to China, often facing the challenges of pirates and typhoons along the way. This shadowy trade, conducted by American, British, and Indian firms, thrived despite its moral and legal consequences. Drawing largely on primary sources, the story of the opium trade comes through in the voices of those who saw it firsthand. Appendices describe a favorite shipboard recipe, two of the ships involved in the trade and their crews, excerpts from accounts of the Opium War, and language equivalents for proper and place names. A bibliography is included, and maps and photographs help illumine this important and unusual period of history.
Download or read book History of the Opium Problem written by Hans Derks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was introduced in India and Indonesia by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium problem around 1950.
Download or read book Opium Inc written by Thomas Manuel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the world's biggest drug deal. In the nineteenth century, the British East India Company operated a triangle of trade that straddled the globe, running from India to China to Britain. From India to China, they took opium. From China to Britain, they took tea. From Britain to India, they brought empire. It was a machine that consumed cheap Indian land and labour and spat out money. The British had two problems, though. They were importing enormous amounts of tea from China, but the Celestial Empire looked down on British goods and only wanted silver in return. Simultaneously, the expanding colony in India was proving far too expensive to maintain. The British solved both problems with opium, which became the source of income on which they built their empire. For more than a century, the British knew that the drug was dangerous and continued to trade in it anyway. Its legacy in India, whether the poverty of Bihar or the wealth of Bombay, is still not acknowledged. Like many colonial institutions in India, the story of opium is one of immense pain for many and huge privileges for a few.
Download or read book The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth Century India written by Rolf Bauer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India, Rolf Bauer deals with the peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. He shows how the peasants were forced to cultivate this unremunerative crop through a collaboration of the state and the Indian elite.
Download or read book The Indo British Opium Trade and Its Effect written by Theodor Christlieb and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Opium Trade written by Nathan Allen and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indo Chinese Opium Trade written by J. Spencer Hill and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Essay on the Opium Trade written by Nathan Allen and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Opium Policy and Its Results to India and China written by Frederick Storrs Turner and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East India Opium written by Great Britain. India Office and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smuggling as Subversion written by Amar Farooqui and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smuggling as Subversion is the first comprehensive account of the opium industry in western India during the colonial period, from its beginnings to the mid-19th century. This is an in-depth examination of the use of opium during colonial times, and at the same time the fascinating story of how Indian merchants developed a smuggling enterprise that subverted the East India Company's monopoly in the drug, setting in motion a chain of events that led to the first Opium War in China.
Download or read book The Triple Curse Or the Evils of the Opium Trade on India China and England written by John Passmore Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Opium Problem written by Hans Derks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was introduced in India and Indonesia by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium problem around 1950.
Download or read book What Can be Done to Suppress the Opium Trade written by William Groser and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East India opium Further Returns of the Charges c to the East India Government Incurred in the Growth and Monopoly of Opium written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise and Progress of British Opium Smuggling written by R. Alexander and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rise and Progress of British Opium Smuggling: The Illegality of the East India Company's Monopoly of the Drug; And Its Injurious Effects Upon India, China, and the Commerce of Great Britain In a statistical paper, printed for the Court of Directors of the East India Company in 1853, the first words are, In Bengal the revenue from Opium is realised by means of a Government monopoly; and almost immediately thereupon follow these sen tenoes The ordinary consequences of monopoly, increase of price to the consumer and restriction on the employment of capital and industry, are not wanting in the opium system; the free cultivation of the poppy would doubtless lead to the larger outlay of capital, and to greater economy of production. It is a pity for India, my Lord, that so sound and Slmple an axiom in political economy has ever been departed from, and that now the consequences of such de parture from right principle have evolved those evils which render retrogressive measures imperatively necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.