Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh

Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh

Ghosh traces the opium trade's genuinely central role in building the modern global economy, showing how this single addictive commodity fuelled colonial fortunes, shaped international trade routes and drove some of history's most consequential imperial conflicts.

Drawing on his research for the acclaimed Ibis trilogy, Ghosh combines rigorous historical scholarship with vivid narrative storytelling, revealing opium's largely obscured but genuinely foundational role in shaping the modern capitalist world order.

A revelatory history of opium's foundational role in global capitalism, from acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh.

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