Exploitation, brutality and misery: how the opium trade shaped the modern world
By Kevin Foster, Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University
In his new history, Amitav Ghosh shows how the world’s first international drug cartels were run by the Dutch and British governments through their monopoly East India companies.
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