Milk of paradise a history of opium - Inglis, Lucy (New York Pegasus Books, 2019)
Ópion, afyūn, opium. The ancient world -- The Islamic golden age to the Renaissance -- The silver triangle and the creation of Hong Kong -- In the arms of Morpheus. The romantics meet modern science -- The China crisis -- The American disease -- Heroin. A new addiction, prohibition and the rise of the gangster -- From the Somme to Saigon -- Afghanistan -- Heroin chic, HIV and generation Oxy.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-422) and index.
AIT-2269g donated by Prof. Ivan S. Henares.
Keywords: Opium trade -- History