| Description |
xv, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Edition |
1st Harvard University Press ed. |
| Notes |
Originally published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2009. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-243) and index. |
| Contents |
Opium : a drug in motion through time and space -- Opium and heroin in Asia : early history and geopolitics -- Opium and heroin in Asia : the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent -- All-time highs and lows -- In and out of the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent -- War, drugs, and the war on drugs -- Opium poppy cultivation -- Successes and failures -- Drug trafficking routes (maps). |
| ISBN |
9780674051348 (cloth alk. paper)
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0674051343 (cloth alk. paper)
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