Smoke and Ashes Opium's Hidden Histories Richard McGuire At the heart of Africulture

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Smoke and Ashes Opium's Hidden Histories Richard McGuire At the heart of AfricultureBy: Amitav Ghosh Published by Picador, 2025 02 11 Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy, Literary Hub, and The Millions Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own familythe climax of a yearslong project. When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were