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  title info:
    title: Milk of paradise
    sub title: a history of opium
  name:
    name part: Inglis, Lucy
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiv, 440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: An intelligent and authoritative history of opium, a drug that has both healed and harmed since the beginning of civilization. Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl. Humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand. No other substance in the world is as simple to produce or as profitable. It is the basis of a gargantuan industry built upon a shady underworld, but ultimately it is an agricultural product that lives many lives before it reaches the branded blister packet, the intravenous drip or the scorched and filthy spoon. Many of us will end our lives dependent on it. In Milk of Paradise, acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes readers on an epic journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afghanistan, from Sanskrit to pop, from poppy tears to smack, from morphine to today's synthetic opiates. It is a tale of addiction, trade, crime, sex, war, literature, medicine and, above all, money. And, as this ambitious, wide-ranging, and compelling account vividly shows, the history of opium is our history and it speaks to us of who we are.
  note: Lucy Inglis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Opium trade
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Social History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / World
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Modern / General
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Modern
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Social History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / World
  classification: HV5816 .I48 2019
  classification: 362.29/3
  identifier: 9781643130552
  identifier: 1643130552
  identifier: 2018196003
  record info:
    record content source: FMG
    record creation date: 190123
    record change date: 20190422110346.0
    record identifier: in00004056208