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The Opium Debate.

The Opium Debate

Diana L. Ahmad

University of Nevada Press

Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV, 89557-0076

0874176980, $34.95 www.unpress.nevada.edu 1-877-682-6657

"The Opium Debate And Chinese Exclusion laws In The Nineteenth-Century American West" by Diana

L. Ahmad (Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Rolla) is the story of a mid-nineteenth century 'war on drugs' and immigration restriction policies carried out by governmental agencies. Professor Ahmad articulately explains how anti-Chinese propaganda and the spread of opium addiction led to exclusionary immigration laws and the attitude that the Chinese and the recreational use of opium associated with their communities were a danger to the national economy and middle-class Anglo-American domestic life. A fascinating and scholarly study that features extensive notation, an exhaustive bibliography, and a comprehensive index, "The Opium Debate" is as informed and informative as it is well organized and 'reader friendly'. This is an impressive and very highly recommended contribution to academic library 19th Century American History reference collections and reading lists.

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