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Article: Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756-1895.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- December 1, 2004
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Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756-1895, by Paul C. Winther. Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 2003. xviii, 429 pp. $90.00 US (cloth).
In the recent historiography of British imperialism few topics have enjoyed as much renewed interest among scholars as have science, medicine, and missionary evangelism. In this book, Paul C. Winther has provided a meticulously-researched study of how all these aspects converged in one of the more controversial episodes of British rule in India: the state-sanctioned production and marketing of opium to Indian and Chinese consumers. In the late eighteenth century and ...