The Global Career of Indian Opium and Local Destinies

Abstract: As is well known, opium was a major colonial commodity. It was linked to trade in several other commodities of the modern era such as tea, sugar and cotton and through these to Atlantic the slave trade. The movement of these commodities across continents shaped capitalism in very specific...

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Main Author: Amar Farooqui
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Series:Almanack
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2236-46332016000300052&lng=en&tlng=en