num_pages: 208
description: Most of the literature on demands to exclude Chinese focus on economics and politics, though some recent studies have added Chinese prostitution to the argument. Ahmad (history, U. of Missouri-Rolla) expands the topic further by considering the impact of smoking-opium and its culture. Smoking-opium, she explains, is to be distinguished from the medicinal opium that Americans had long used, and arrived as a recreational drug along with Chinese workers at the beginning of the gold rush. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: The Opium Debate And Chinese Exclusion Laws In The Nineteenth-Century American West
titlecomplete: The Opium Debate And Chinese Exclusion Laws In The Nineteenth-Century American West
ratings_count: 8
publisher: University of Nevada Press