Article: The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-Century Baghdad.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: A Learned Society in a Period of Transition: the Sunni 'Ulama' of ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... tables) is a study of the scholarly community of eleventh-century Baghdad, "a time when the fluid society of the 'learned', the ... institutional development in the sphere of learning in eleventh-century Baghdad was, of course, the advent of the madrasa under the auspices ...

Article: Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the ...
China Review International;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Edward R. Slack, Jr. Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco ... the Western scholarly literature on opium in China was both numerically meager ... chronologically narrow. Arthur Waley's The Opium War through Chinese Eyes and Chang Hsin ...

Article: opium
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...opium substance derived by collecting and drying the milky juice in the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy , Papaver somniferum. Opium varies in color from yellow to dark brown and has a characteristic ...

Article: Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the ...
Pacific Affairs;  December 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ...OPIUM, STATE, AND SOCIETY: China's Narco ... 8248-2361-3. The profound effects that opium had on Chinese society in the first half ... description of the Guomingdang's evolving opium policy He points out that among the many ...

Article: Opium cultivation down by a fifth in Afghanistan.
UzReport;  August 27, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... issued its summary of the Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008. The report shows a 19 per cent decrease in opium cultivation to 157,000 hectares, down ... kg/ha (up from 42.5 kg in 2007), opium production has dropped less dramatically ...

Article: Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952.(Book ...
Journal of World History;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839 ... Toronto for a groundbreaking conference on opium in East Asia jointly sponsored by the University ... came up with the idea after discovering that opium was not only a topic of mutual interest ...

Article: Opium Wars
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ...Opium Wars Opium Wars is a term referring to two wars that Britain fought against imperial ... the Chinese authorities to stop the growing influx of foreign-produced opium. The real cause of the first Opium War (1839 – 1842), also ...