You have a good knowledge of history eg Britian, China, cresent.
What historical books do you read??
I asked my son to get the box that has most or all of those. My sister borrowed a couple a while back but I can get the titles for most of what I’ve read it’ll just be later today.
The only one I can't seem to find is one that was translated from German and covers how the drug trade was sponsored by the Brits in Germany after WWI and how the US paved the way for a huge influx of heroin into Europe during the seventies often running into strong resistance from European Police and Intelligence agencies.
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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of Modern China
Julia Lovell
ISBN: 1468308955
The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another
W. Travis Hanes III & Frank Sanello
ISBN: 0760776385
Drugging A Nation: The Story Of China And The Opium Curse
Samuel Merwin
ISBN: 1163527920
The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes
Arthur Waley
ISBN: 0804706115
Opium and Empire: The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson
Richard J. Grace
ISBN: 0773544526
Commissioner Lin and the Opium War
Hsin-pao Chang
ISBN: 0393005216
The Chinese Opium Wars
Jack Beeching
ISBN: 0151176507
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
Alfred W. McCoy
ISBN: 0060129018
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This one is good because it shows the same approaches used in China by the Brits and the US have been continued and refined.
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America
Peter Dale Scott & Jonathan Marshall
ISBN: 0520214498
The first two of the following are pretty much a complete history of how the US has always subjected efforts to stop drug trafficking to other concerns with halting the flow of drugs being a distant second. The third one sort of wraps it all up and puts a bow on what those other concerns are.
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs
Douglas Valentine
ISBN: 1844675645
The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA
Douglas Valentine
ISBN: 1936296098
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World
Douglas Valentine
ISBN: 0997287012
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This one isn't really about the opium trade but it's very helpful in understanding our history with China although it doesn't really make the point that several US family fortunes originated with the opium trade in China (Astor, Forbes, Delano, Russell, others) as it should.
The China Mirage
James Bradley
ISBN: 978-0-316-19667-3