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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Opium trade"”.
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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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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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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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An Evaluation of the work of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society, 1841-2011.
… minorities in medicine, in its opposition to the opium trade, and its interdenominational character. Its Livingstone Memorial Medical Missionary Training Institution for serving the sick poor and training mission doctors was much imitated. After enjoying medical missions’ hey day in the first half …
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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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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 …