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how the opium trade shaped the modern world

  • Written by Kevin Foster, Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University
how the opium trade shaped the modern worldOpium poppy heads.Daniel Prudek/Shutterstock.

In the final pages of Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories, Amitav Ghosh volunteers a startling confession. Though he had spent many years working on the book and had “accumulated an enormous amount of material”, he decided he could not go on with it, as he was overwhelmed by the...

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