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

Julia Lovell

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

Julia Lovell

480 pages hardcover 2011

5 editions

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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In October 1839, a cabinet meeting in Windsor voted to fight Britain's first Opium War with China. The conflict turned out to be rich in tragicomedy: in bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over t...

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