Opium : uncovering the politics of the poppy /
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy.
- 1st Harvard University Press ed.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
- xv, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Originally published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-243) and index.
Opium : a drug in motion through time and space -- Opium and heroin in Asia : early history and geopolitics -- Opium and heroin in Asia : the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent -- All-time highs and lows -- In and out of the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent -- War, drugs, and the war on drugs -- Opium poppy cultivation -- Successes and failures -- Drug trafficking routes (maps).