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Amazon.com ReviewWith personages from Khun Sa to Coleridge to Kurt Cobain populating its far-ranging pages, Opium: A History provides a comprehensive look at the drug as it's been used, abused, fought over, and profited from throughout the millennia. In all likelihood, one of the first medicinal drugs known to mankind, opium and its derivatives have eased and caused suffering in almost equal measure, a fact that the evenhanded Booth takes pains to point out. In fact, he quotes rock musician Frank Zappa with approbation: "A drug is neither moral nor immoral--it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole." Booth's book traces opium's history from the first evidence of poppy cultivation (possibly as early as 4,000 B.C.) to the drug wars of today, exploring its uses in different cultures, its roles in British and Chinese political affairs, its use by artists and musicians, and its horrifying ramifications for addicts. Booth writes with admirable attention to detail, if very little élan. Plowing through some of his sentences is a little like chewing on a mouthful of sawdust: "There are several reasons suggested for the popularity of the hypodermic but the primary one is the lowering standard of heroin purity caused by the success of legislation on production and by the selling methods employed by Italians who took over distribution from Jewish gangs, leading to an increase in price and higher levels of adulteration." It's enough to drive a reader to drugs. Nonetheless, the power of his narrative can't be entirely erased by the unwieldiness of his prose. The book is filled with striking images and surprising facts--for instance, opium-addicted Victorian children, fed "soothing syrups" by minders to keep them quiet. Undernourished, yellow-skinned, in the words of one contemporary observer, they "shrank up into little old men or wizened like a little monkey." In the end, Booth finds few answers to the problems posed by the opium trade--a scourge he says has "destroyed millions of lives, enslaved whole cultures and invidiously corrupted human society to its very core." In writing this exhaustively researched history, however, Booth brings us that much closer to understanding--and thereby conquering--the most tenacious of human addictions. --Mary Park Opium Poppy: History - DEA Museum & Visitors Center History The Origins of Opium. The earliest reference to opium growth and use is in 3400 B.C. when the opium poppy was cultivated in lower Mesopotamia (Southwest Asia). The Sumerians referred to it as Hul Gil the ... Opium Wars Chinese history Britannica.com Opium Wars two armed conflicts in China in the mid-19th century between the forces of Western countries and of the Qing dynasty which ruled China from 1644 to 1911/12. The first Opium War (183942) was fought ... Opium Wars - Wikipedia The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China and China's sovereignty. The disputes included the First Opium War (18391842) and the Second Opium ... opium trade British and Chinese history Britannica.com Opium trade in Chinese history the traffic that developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in which Western countries mostly Great Britain exported opium grown in India and sold it to China. Opium Timeline - opioids.com A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPIUM "Opium teaches only one thing which is that aside from physical suffering there is nothing real." Andr Malraux MAN'S FATE. c.3400 B.C. The opium poppy is cultivated in lower Mesopotamia. History of opium in China - Wikipedia Imports of opium into China stood at 200 chests annually in 1729 when the first anti-opium edict was promulgated. and by the time Chinese authorities reissued the prohibition in starker terms in 1799 the figure had ... The Opium Wars: From Both Sides Now History Today Julia Lovell reappraises Leslie Marchants article on the Opium Wars first published in History Today in 2002. Despite Niall Fergusons efforts in 2003 to partially rehabilitate British imperialism in his ... Opium Throughout History The Opium Kings FRONTLINE - PBS c.3400 B.C. The opium poppy is cultivated in lower Mesopotamia. The Sumerians refer to it as Hul Gil the 'joy plant.' The Sumerians would soon pass along the plant and its euphoric effects to the Assyrians. England and China: The Opium Wars 1839-60 The Opium Trade Seventh through Nineteenth Centuries. he Anglo-Chinese Opium Wars were the direct result of China's isolationalist and exclusionary trade policy with the West. Opium throughtout History - Central Bureau of Narcotics 3400 BC: Opium poppy was cultivated in lower Mesopotamia. The Sumerians referred to it as Hul Gul the 'joy plant.' The Sumerians would soon pass along the plant and its euphoric effects to the Assyrians.
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