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Opium - History

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Works from the collections

10 works

    • Books

    Objects beyond feeling : race, medicine and sympathy in the romantic periood / by Creighton Ward Don.

    | Don, Creighton Ward. | Date: 2001
    • Books
    • Online

    An inaugural dissertation on opium embracing its history, chemical analysis and use and abuse as a medicine / / by William G. Smith.

    | Smith, William G., active 1832 | Date: April 2, 1832
    • Books

    High society : mind-altering drugs in history and culture / by Mike Jay.

    | Mike Jay | Date: 2010
    • Student dissertations

    The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and the changing face of opium in the early nineteenth-century / Timothy Schrire.

    | Schrire, Timothy. | Date: 2011
    • Books

    Poppies and politics in China : Sichuan province, 1840s to 1940s / Xiaoxiong Li.

    | Li, Xiaoxiong, 1951- | Date: [2009]
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