Poppies, Politics, and Power: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy

Author/Contributor(s):	Bradford, James Tharin
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	06/15/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Historians have long neglected Afghanistan's broader history when portraying the opium industry. But in Poppies, Politics, and Power, James Tharin Bradford rebalances the discourse, showing that it is not the past forty years of lawlessness that makes the opium industry what it is, but the sheer breadth of the twentieth-century Afghanistan...