Opium - Tapa blanda

Opium

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Mullen Books, ABAA
(Marietta, PA, Estados Unidos de America)

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Descripción Softcover. Condición: New. Color-illus. card wraps with sepia image and white lettering. French flaps. 200 pp. with color and bw images throughout. Text in German. Wow! A colorful, history of opium - the flower, the medicine, the drug, the addiction, the art, the culture. Incredible images, a chronology, and extensive essays. Catalogue to accompany the exhibition of March 2015 to January 2016 at the Museum der Kulturen, Basel. From the cover: "Remedies, inebriating drug, poison - these are just three incarnations of opium. Elixir or curse; inspiration, valuable commodity, or misanthropic evil: Which of these are attributed to opium in the mental and physical decay depends on history, culture, experience, and individual circumstances. The judgments and perceptions of retailers, consumers and opponents in this publication includes a wide range - geographically, politically, culturally; from the flower of Demeter to the tears of Aphrodite; of the poppy crop in Burma and the Afghanistan to Opiomanen the 19th and 20th centuries in the salons of the West and the opium dens of China; of the political instrumentalization of the drug trade to benefits in medicine and pharmacy and further to the shifts its perception. The authors have dealt with the issue for decades and present the current state of knowledge on the subject. Richly illustrated, the book opens a fascinating insight into a taboo subject.". Nº de ref. del artículo: 151208

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