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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Opium"”.
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The Question of Opium: Money, Morality and Japan’s Transimperial Participation in Opium Regulation, 1868 – 1925
‘The Opium Question’ was not a question, but rather it framed the issue of the under-regulated production, trade and consumption of opium in Asia throughout the nineteenth century. How did opium contribute to Japan’s imperial expansion? Furthermore, how did Japan learn from other imperial powers …
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British reaction to the opium trade, 1839-1860
… with the reaction of the British public to the opium trade during the period of the so-called Opium Wars between Britain and China. There were several key elements in Victorian society whose views on the opium trade and the opium habit were widely publicized in Britain and which greatly …
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Opium production and distribution: Poppies, profits and power in Afghanistan
… became the world’s leading<br />supplier of opium and has continued to do so in 2011. The prevailing explanations for the proliferation of the opium economy in Afghanistan point out several key factors: opium as a manageable and profitable cash crop brings a monetary income to farmers who are …
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A Brief Historiography Of The Opium Trade With A New Evaluation Of Dr. William H. Park's Opinions Of Over 100 Physicians On The Use Of Opium In China
… thesis provides a brief historiography of the opium trade between Britain and China from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, followed by a reexamination of Dr. William H. Park's Opinions of Over 100 Physicians on the Use of Opium in China. While Dr. Park's compilation was …
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Expanding the Role of Oxidoreductases in Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloid Metabolism in Opium Poppy
… codeine, and the vasodilator papaverine. In opium poppy, the antepenultimate and final steps in morphine biosynthesis are catalyzed by oxidoreductases belonging to the 2-oxoglutarate/Fe(II)-dependent dioxygenase gene family, namely thebaine 6-O-demethylase (T6ODM) and codeine O-demethylase …
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Playing With Fire: The Nationalist Government and Opium in China, 1927-1941
… attempts that the Nationalists made to control opium. The first was the failed 1927 attempt to set up a national opium monopoly, the second was the comprehensive opium control plan that culminated in the successful 1935 six-year plan for eliminating opium and drugs. The 1927 plan failed because …
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What attitudes about opium were driving the government of India's policies between 1857-1906?
… thesis will examine British Attitudes towards opium between 1857 to 1906 to analyse how they impacted policies of the Government of India. The research is presented thematically and draws upon numerous sources both from archives in Britain and the National Archives of India. The dominance of …
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Terræ Incognitæ as Ego Incognita: Mapping Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
… De Quincey in his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by plotting his movements within London and contrasting them to his earlier travels in Wales. I demonstrate that De Quincey’s writing process creates an imaginative London, London imaginis, that has the real London, London res, as a …
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Opium, the British Empire and the beginnings of an international drugs control regime, ca. 1890-1910
… proceedings and aftermath of the Shanghai Opium Commission (1909) which marked the first step towards the establishment of an international drugs control regime. The research is presented chronologically and draws on a wide range of primary and secondary source documents, including …
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Health and social disparities influence opioid misuse among adult females living in rural areas
… best non-addictive pain medication derived from opium. In the early 1800s morphine was distilled from opium extracted from opium poppy plants (Quinones, 2015). Soon after a chemist invents a synthetic derivative of opium and names it diacetylmorphine (heroin) (Quinones, 2015, (Drugs and Morphine …
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Isolation and characterization of latex-specific promoters from Papaver somniferum L.
… morphine and codeine are found in latex of opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Latex is harbored in laticifers, a specialized vascular cell-type. Isolation and characterization of latex-specific genes may provide a useful tool to metabolically engineer increased alkaloid production. Previous …
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The U.S. and The UK’s War on the Afghan Opium Industry: A Critical Evaluation of Anglo-American Counter Narcotics Policies in Afghanistan 2001-2011
… policies in Afghanistan failed dismally after opium cultivation surged to unprecedented levels. At the centre of this failed battle against illegal narcotics was the Anglo-American partnership. Far from working harmoniously, the alliance was separated by competing and opposing views of how to …
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Medicine and medical authority in three nineteenth-century novels.
… the medical community's indiscriminate use of opium is criticized. Ubiquitous opium-based preparations, like laudanum, are treated as ethically ambiguous and potentially dangerous. In Stoker's Dracula, a "metaphysician" who treats both the body and soul is the most effective medical authority …
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Market, Medicine, and Empire: Hoshi Pharmaceuticals in the Interwar Years
… contracted Turkish poppy farmers to supply raw opium for government-owned refineries in Taiwan. Hoshi also helped shape modern consumer culture in Japan and its colonies, and indeed, became an emblem for it. At its peak in the early 1920s, Hoshi had a network of chain stores across Asia that …
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The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China, 1759–1857
… a British imperial context following the first Opium War (1839–42). The minimal scholarship on Anglo-Sino relations between the Enlightenment and Victorian periods suggests a lull in these exchanges during the Romantic era. On the contrary, British interest in China increased exponentially …
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The investigation of pyrolysis products of South African street drug, nyaope
… amphetamine, heroin, cannabis and opium) were sequentially investigated. The successful use of activated carbon strips in trapping pyrolysis products of the various illicit drugs and drug mixtures during this research was demonstrated and a novel robust analytical methodology …
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Drugs in the News: What Do the Afghan News Media Say About Illicit Drugs?
… However, in Afghanistan, the world’s largest opium producer, very little is known about the media coverage of illicit drug issues. Afghan media, especially radio and television have developed dramatically during the past 11 years. Using the theories of agenda setting and framing, this study …
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