The Chinese and Opium under the Republic

The Chinese and Opium under the RepublicExamines China's attempts to control the opium economy in the early twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, opium smoking was common throughout China and regarded as a vice no different from any other: pleasurable, potentially dangerous, but not a threat to destroy the nation and the race, and often profitable to the state and individuals. Once Western concepts of addiction came to China in the twentieth century, however, opium came to be seen

‘The Economic Turn’ brings together many of the world’s leading historians of early political economy to recast the very origins of the discipline in light of the Europe-wide critical reaction to the school of Enlightenment economic thought known as Physiocracy

This textbook covers over three centuries of British business history from 1720 to the present day

and abstraction from it

just wants to secure her economic future

as well as his films’ shocking psychological frameworks

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These inconsistencies are typically called "non-attitudes

Migration diplomacy paints a complex picture of how migrants

Forced to constantly redefine their roles in the face of massive technological changes and a myriad of regional and worldwide trade agreements

using the case study approach

Sergeant considers the way in which fantasy cinema rejects Hollywood's typically naturalistic mode of address to generate an alternative experience that Sergeant refers to as the fantastic

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