Amitav Ghosh: Smoke and Ashes
Smoke and Ashes
Buch
- Opium's Hidden Histories
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- Pan MacMillan, 02/2025
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781250371874
- Umfang: 416 Seiten
- Gewicht: 454 g
- Maße: 210 x 137 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 11.2.2025
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy, Literary Hub, and The MillionsGhosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family―the climax of a yearslong project.
>Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, a memoir, and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large. The trade was engineered by the British Empire, which exported Indian opium to sell to China to redress their great trade imbalance, and its revenues were essential to the empire's financial survival. Following the profits further, Ghosh finds opium central to the origins of some of the world's biggest corporations, of America's most powerful families and prestigious institutions (from the Astors and Coolidges to the Ivy League), and of contemporary globalism itself.
Moving deftly between horticultural history, the mythologies of capitalism, and the social and cultural repercussions of colonialism, in Smoke and Ashes Ghosh reveals the role that one small plant has had in making our world, now teetering on the edge of catastrophe.