Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh

Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

416 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative slow-paced
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Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, a memoir, and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large. The...

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