Description:"Opium Traders and Their Worlds examines the opium trade with a detective's investigative approach. The author uses evidence to dismiss many of the false claims commonly held with regard to the so-called ""legitimacy"" of the Old China trade, presents proof of important figures who were deeply involved in all parts of the world and shows how world events were affected by famous men in opium hierarchies.Lateral contributors to the drug trade include shipbuilders who fashioned their craft to meet needs of the commerce, designing specially built Indiamen, clippers, and ""fast crabs.""Ms. Kienholz shows how vicious competition in the trade moved players like chess pieces, with winners and losers shifting positions.Her research into the production of the new ""opioids"" such as oxycodone is an area not previously probed."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Opium Traders and Their Worlds-Volume One: A Revisionist Exposé of the World's Greatest Opium Traders. To get started finding Opium Traders and Their Worlds-Volume One: A Revisionist Exposé of the World's Greatest Opium Traders, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
583
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
iUniverse
Release
2008
ISBN
0595910785
Opium Traders and Their Worlds-Volume One: A Revisionist Exposé of the World's Greatest Opium Traders
Description: "Opium Traders and Their Worlds examines the opium trade with a detective's investigative approach. The author uses evidence to dismiss many of the false claims commonly held with regard to the so-called ""legitimacy"" of the Old China trade, presents proof of important figures who were deeply involved in all parts of the world and shows how world events were affected by famous men in opium hierarchies.Lateral contributors to the drug trade include shipbuilders who fashioned their craft to meet needs of the commerce, designing specially built Indiamen, clippers, and ""fast crabs.""Ms. Kienholz shows how vicious competition in the trade moved players like chess pieces, with winners and losers shifting positions.Her research into the production of the new ""opioids"" such as oxycodone is an area not previously probed."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Opium Traders and Their Worlds-Volume One: A Revisionist Exposé of the World's Greatest Opium Traders. To get started finding Opium Traders and Their Worlds-Volume One: A Revisionist Exposé of the World's Greatest Opium Traders, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.