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Amitav Ghosh on the global history of opium
Publisher |
ABC Podcasts
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Politics
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Feb 27, 2024
Episode Duration |
00:38:52

Opium had long been used sparingly in India and China as a valuable and useful medicine. When Britain's dependency on Chinese tea created a balance of trade problem, the East India company turbo-charged the opium industry and found an infinitely expanding market for opium in China.

Guest: Amitav Ghosh, author of Smoke and Ashes: Opiums Hidden Histories (Hachette)

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