Sentences with phrase «first opium»

This is a beautifully told story set in India, the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal on the eve of the First Opium War.

A few decades earlier, China had lost the first Opium War, and it had done little since to strengthen its defenses or improve its diplomatic ties to other nations.

But this dispersal began in earnest in the 1830s, just before the first Opium War, and the earliest immigrants were from a part of British India (northern Bihar) which became, under the rule of the East India Company, the single most important opium - growing region of the world.

The pace of missionary expansion increased considerably after the first Anglo - Chinese war (known as the First Opium War, 1839 - 1842) with Christian missionaries, working under the protection of Western powers, playing a major role in Westernizing China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The health of Imperial Britain's coffers depended on the profitable opium - for - tea trade with the Middle Kingdom, and when the First Opium War threatened the arrangement, Fortune was sent east.

Not exact matches

Mexican authorities destroyed almost 30,000 acres of poppies in the first half of 2015, after seizing 570 pounds of opium paste in 2014, a 42 % increase over 2013 (though, as Hope notes, «seizures declined close to 90 %» in 2013).

Milosz witnessed these efforts first - hand and reflected on their results: «Religion, opium for the people.

Ford's technique worked and the image has since become synonymous with the house, and Opium — which was first launched in 1977 — remains one of YSL's best - known scents.

First, Ezra Vogel's magisterial biography Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of Modern China, about the man who reinvented the country after the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and then Julia Lovell's The Opium War, which charted the clash between Britain and China that first started the confrontation between west and First, Ezra Vogel's magisterial biography Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of Modern China, about the man who reinvented the country after the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and then Julia Lovell's The Opium War, which charted the clash between Britain and China that first started the confrontation between west and first started the confrontation between west and east:

The Film House, which will be the first tenant in the new Central New York Hub for Emerging Nano Industries in Dewitt, plans on starting to film the sci - fi picture «The Opium Wars» in September.

First the patient should be bled in the arm, or leeches may be applied to the inflamed parts; afterwards take a handful of green rue, bruise it, and put it to the part affected; or take marshmallows a handful, camomile a handful, make a decoction in a pint of water, pour the liquor from the herbs, add two drams of the tincture of opium, bathe the part; afterwards apply the herbs as a poultice, or make a poultice of oatmeal and vinegar with a little sweet oil in it.

Opium jugs made on Cyprus have been found in Egypt and the Levant — the first clear example of the international drug trade.

Today I put this very luxurious fragrance in the picture... Opium from Yves Saint Laurent... I was addicted at first smell!

There are clues that explain it, but at first she really did seem so guarded and naive, especially when she learns in her job interview that Sylvie is on opium, and decides not to even mention it to Tanya.

In two separate interviews, Amitav Ghosh talks about how his background as an historian, journalist, and anthropologist informs his work; and about the challenges of writing Sea of Poppies, the first volume in a trilogy set aboard a ship in the Indian Ocean; its purpose, to fight in the vicious 19th century Opium Wars between Britain and China.

Ghosh gives the reader a veritable feast of characters: Deeti, the strong - willed wife of Ghazipur opium addict, Hukam Singh; Hukam's uncle ruthless Bhyro, a recruiter of migrant labourers; carpenter Zachary Reid, the son of a Baltimore Negro freedwoman and her white master; Burnham, merchant and closet masochist; Jodu, a boatman; Raja Neel Rattan Halder, a debt - ridden zemindar; Serang Ali, leader of the lascar seamen; James Doughty, a pilot for ships entering Culcutta; Kalua, a low - caste ox - cart driver; Paulette Lambert, the feisty orphaned daughter of a French botanist; Baboo Nob Kissin Pander, Burnham's accountant who is a virgin celibate with strong religious beliefs; Captain Chillingworth, engaged for his last sea - voyage; first - mate Jack Crowle, a man with an inferiority complex and a sizeable cruel streak; and Chinese - Indian opium addict, Ah Fatt.

(A current exhibition at London's Cell Project Space marks her first solo in the U.K.) Her works comprise a host of unlikely art materials: herbal remedies, fungi, diet Coke, birth control pills, sprigs of rosemary, opium poppies, assorted vitamin supplements, Kombucha, and pot among them.

This animation, The Last Post, first created for the exhibition By Day, By Night, or Some (Special) Things a Museum Can Do at the Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai) in 2010, is inspired by Sikander's ongoing interest in the colonial history of the sub-continent and the British opium trade with China.

«In an attempt to neutralize this «threat,» the Canadian government, based on a report by then - Deputy Labour Minister, W. L. Mackenzie King, enacted the Opium Act in 1908, which was the first attempt to criminalize a narcotic in Canada,» wrote Spies in R. v. Ramos.

His father, Sir Anthony Bowlby, first Baronet Bowlby, was surgeon to the King's Household, but with a tragic history; at age five, his own father (John's grandfather) had been killed while serving as a war correspondent in the Anglo - Chinese Opium War.