The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell

The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

Julia Lovell

480 pages digital 2011

5 editions

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collab...

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