The Opium Wars: How Britain’s Drug Trade Shattered Imperial China and Forged Modernity
The Opium Wars: How Britain’s Drug Trade Shattered Imperial China and Forged Modernity History, it seems, rarely announces its arrival with a polite knock. In the mid-19th century, as the acrid scent of gunpowder mingled with the salty air above China’s Pearl River Delta, and the imposing silhouettes of British warships loomed on the horizon, […]
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