Opium: A History SPQR Now with a new introduction

Now with a new introduction by the author

while others viewed them as glorified servants

Includes excerpts from Smith Wi

Their reign was the most celebrated in Byzantine history

ISBN13: 9780375712951

Opium: A History SPQR Now with a new introductionKnown to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcotic. Opium: A History traces the drug's astounding impact on world culture from its religious use by prehistoric peoples to its influence on the imaginations of the Romantic writers; from the earliest medical science to the Sino British opium wars. And, in the present day, as the addict population rises and penetrates every walk of life, Opium shows how