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Opium Trade Consumption Policy

The opium trade and its attendant wars loomed large in British involvement with China from the mid-nineteenth century. This theme includes histories of the opium trade, tracts opposing its use and the trade in it, medical treatises on opium use, missionaries’ opinions on opium, and accounts of government proceedings related to the trade.

Title	Author / Creator	Date	Place of Publication

Title	Author / Creator	Date	Place of Publication
The American almanac and repository of useful knowledge for the year 1841		1840	Boston
Britain's crime against China	Gregory, Maurice	1891	London
British opium trade with China		[1839]	Birmingham
Captive Cathay	Mason, George L., Rev	1893	Shanghai
Cartoon: ich will das Sie kaufen
China Question	MacDonald, James	1870	London
The China Review on the opium question	The China Review	[1875?]
China's fight against opium
China: as it was and as it is: with a glance at the tea and opium trades		1845	London
China; as it was, and as it is: with a glance at the tea and opium trades		1842	London
Chinese account of the Opium War	Parker, E.H.	1888	Shanghai
The Chinese opium-smoker: twelve illustrations showing the ruin which our opium trade with China is bringing upon that country		[ca. 1880]	London
Compendium of facts relating to the opium trade		1840	London
Confessions of an English opium-eater		[1822]
Debate on Mr. Samuel Smith's resolution relative to the opium trade with China		1889	London
Devastation of India's millions by opium under British rule: will God permit its continuance? By a resident in India		[1891?]	London
East India, and the opium trade		January 1841
An essay on the opium trade: including a sketch of its history, extent, effects, etc., as carried on in India and China	Allen, Nathan, 1813-1889	1850	Boston
Facts and evidence relating to the opium trade with China	Fry, William Storrs	1840	London
Facts and evidence relating to the opium trade with China	Fry, William Storrs	1840	London
Facts and evidence relating to the opium trade with China	Fry, William Storrs	1840	London
A few words to voters			London
Has the opium trade been forced on China?	Alexander, Joseph Gundry, b. 1848	[1894?]	[London]
The Indo-Chinese opium question as it stands in 1893	Needham Cust, Robert	1893	Hertford
The Indo-Chinese opium question as it stands in 1893: or "Are the constitutional rights of the millions of British India to be sacrificed?"	Cust, Robert Needham, 1821-1909	1893	Hertford
The Indo-Chinese opium trade	Hill, J. Spencer	1884	London
The loss to the revenue caused by the opium traffic	Newman, Henry Stanley	[1890?]	[London]
The medical aspect of the opium question		1892	London
The narcotics we indulge in		November 1853
Native opium	The Inspector General of China Maritime Customs, Shanghai	1864	Shanghai
Opinions of over 100 physicians on the use of opium in China	Park, William Hector	1899	Shanghai
The opium habit in the East	Rowntree, Joshua	1895	Westminster, Scarborough
Opium in China, extracted from China; political, commercial, and social	Martin, R. Montgomery	[1847?]	London
The opium question		1877
The opium question	Warren, Samuel	1840	London
The opium question and the present movement	Thwing, E.W.	[1910]
The opium question, as between nation and nation	Warren, Samuel	1840	London
The opium trade in China		1858	London
The opium trade, as affecting British commerce with China	M'Laren, David	[1891?]	London
The opium trade: including a sketch of its history, extent, effects, etc., as carried on in India and China	Allen, Nathan, 1813-1889	1853	Lowell [MA]
The opium trade; includes a sketch of its history, extent, effects, etc. as carried on in India and China	Allen, Nathan	1853	Lowell
The opium traffic between India and China		1881	London
Opium, England's coercive opium policy and its disastrous results in China and India: the spread of opium-smoking in America	Liggins, John	1883	New York
Origin and progress of the war between England and China	Edmonds, John Worth, 1799-1874	1841	New York
Origin and progress of the war between England and China	Edmonds, John W.	1924	Seattle
The other side of the opium question	Moore, W.J.	1882	London
Our opium trade with China	Mander, Samuel S.	1877	London
Our relation to the opium trade: an address to the secretaries of the English Y.W.C.A.'s delivered by Mrs. Grattan Guinness at Morley Hall, April 23rd, 1891	Guinness, Fanny Emma FitzGerald, 1831-1898	[1891]	[London]
The passing of the Indo-Chinese opium trade	Singh, Saint Nihal	[1913?]
The present state of the opium trade with China		1860	London
Remarks on occurrences in China, since the opium seizure in March 1839, to the latest date, by a resident in China		1840	London
The rise and progress of British opium smuggling	Alexander, R., Major-General	1856	London
The rise and progress of British opium smuggling and its effects upon India, China and the commerce of Great Britain: four letters addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftesbury	Alexander, Robert, Major-General	1856	London
The rupture with China, and its causes: including the opium question, and other important details, in a letter to Lord Viscount Palmerston by a resident in China		1840	London
Some pros and cons of the opium question, with a few suggestions regarding British claims on China		1840	London
The speech of the Right Hon. Lord Ashley, M.P., the House of Commons	Ashley, Right Hon. Lord	1843	London
Substitutes for the opium revenue	Alexander, Joseph Gundry, b. 1848	1892	Westminster, London
This memorial is respectfully submitted by the International Reform Bureau, of Washington, D. C., United States, to the governments participating in the Shanghai conference on opium	Blair, Henry W.; Power, F.D.; Crafts, Wilbur F.	12 January 1909
The traffic in and the use of opium in our own and other countries. A document by the representative meeting of the yearly meeting of Friends for New England for 1881-1882	New England Yearly Meeting of Friends	1882	Providence
The triple curse: or, the evils of the opium trade on India, China and England	Edwards, J. Passmore	[1858]	London
The use of opium and its bearing on the spread of Christianity in China	Moule, A.E., Rev	1877	Shanghai
A voice from China and India relative to the evils of the cultivation and smuggling of opium: in four letters to the Hon. Lord John Russell	Peggs, James	1846	London
What can be done to suppress the opium trade	Groser, William	1840	London

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