Books by Carl Trocki
Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy
by Carl Trocki
Carl Trocki makes the point how economically central opium was to the building and maintaining of the British Empire
Interviews where books by Carl Trocki were recommended
The best books on The Opium War, recommended by Julia Lovell
The 19th century opium war marked the clash of the world’s great empires of the age – Britain and China. Historian Julia Lovell says its legacy of Chinese humiliation is still felt keenly in Beijing.