| Contents |
Preface -- The poppy problem comes to the West -- Into the West's caves of oblivion -- Threats to body and behavior -- Excluding the dual dilemma -- Smoking-opium's continued presence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Review |
"The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West examines how the spread of opium-smoking and its culture fueled anti-Chinese propaganda and demands for the exclusion of the Chinese from American life. This meticulously researched study of the nineteenth-century American drug-abuse crisis reveals the ways moral crusaders linked their anti-opium rhetoric to already active demands for Chinese exclusion."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-127) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006025457 |
| ISBN | 0874176980 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780874176988 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780874178449 |
| ISBN | 0874178444 |
