Briefly Noted Book Reviews
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Ghosh argues that the British opium 'racket' aimed at getting the Chinese population addicted was 'utterly indefensible by the standards of its own time as well as ours.'
Patrick Joyce emphasizes that 'almost all of us are in one way or another the children of peasants' and stresses the importance of staying connected to our collective history.
Read at The New Yorker
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