The sap of the poppy required extensive and labor ... A must read for all nonfiction lovers. The post Book Review: Smoke and ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site ... forcing more than a million peasant households to plant a white opium poppy monoculture. At one end of this continuum of ...

In his latest book, "Smoke and Ashes ... specifically Indian farmers coerced into growing poppy and the consequent pumping of opium into China. Ghosh exposes the hypocrisy of the Western world ...

Opium’s Hidden Histories,” the unassuming opium poppy is to blame for much of the devastation that swept through China and India in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Of course, the flower did ...

Former poppy-growing areas “have had significantly worse long-term social and economic outcomes” than nearby districts. A comparison of these two opium economies forms the heart of the book ...

Ghosh said that his upcoming book is “based on the enormous quantities ... the East India Company outlawed its use in India, although opium poppy seeds, known as posto in Bengal, entered the ...

The opium poppy looks delicate and innocuous ... of botanical matter” and a reckoning with the imperial past. The book’s origins lie in his trilogy of “Ibis” novels, set in the thick ...

Ghosh claims it was not a conceptual breakthrough that brought him back to the book, but the evidence of the Earth’s vitality, embodied in the potency of a single plant, the opium poppy ...

“The opium poppy, on the other hand ... given me huge and whole-hearted support throughout the writing of the book. I am very excited about the publication of the book!” ...