商品簡介
Taking primarily a perpetrator's view, Dutch sociologist Derks provides a history of the production, consumption, and distribution of opium and its derivatives from the time they form an objective political, social, economic, or cultural problem in a specific period and place. He argues that the first time in world history this happened was on the west coast of India--Malabar or Kerala--after 1660 due to the Dutch assault in the framework of establishing their Asian trade empire. Before this time, he says, there was opium consumption but no opium problem, and after this time all the other opium-imperialists followed the Dutch example to one degree or another. His story encompasses the opium problem, the British assault, the Dutch assault, the French assault, the new imperialists, the victims, and the story of the snake and its tail. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Hans Derks, historian and Doctor in the Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam (1986), was Senior Lecturer at the University of Utrecht and University of Surinam. He published about twenty books and numerous scholarly articles on European and Chinese history, the Second World War, and ancient Greek history, including Jew, Nomad or Pariah. Studies on Hannah Arendt's Choice (Aksant/Transactions, 2004).
