Review of Opium’s Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control , by Steffen Rimner (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2018)
… the League of Nations came into being in 1920, nations and empires began to prioritize anti-drug trafficking laws as an … opium trade. By broadening the scope of his analysis beyond empires and nations, Rimner demonstrates that there were … lens, Rimner is able to explain how states and empires came to adopt drug control laws after the First …