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Burak Çıtır
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We'll talk about history here, but not as you are used to.
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I'm a historian of opium, trade and Ottoman-German relations in modern Türkiye. My research focuses on the trade of opium and everyday life in Ottoman trade.
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Burak Çıtır @burakcitir.bsky.social · Apr 15
Anatolian Opium and Its Marketing during World War I | The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 38, No 2 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Anatolian Opium and Its Marketing during World War I | The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 38, No 2
Abstract Known for its narcotic properties since ancient times, opium became one of the basic raw materials of the pharmaceutical industry with the discovery of morphine, one of its main components, a...
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Next week, the German university semester begins. I'll be teaching a course on "The Global Narcotics Trade: From the Opium Wars to War on Drugs"at the Free University of Berlin as part of the Global History MA program. Here is the syllabus for any who are interested:
The Global Narcotics Trade: From the Opium Wars to War on Drugs Session 1 - April 14 – Introductory Seminar • This session will cover the scope and aims of the course, introductions and a discussion of course expectations. Session 2 - April 28 – The Narcotics Trade and Global History • Paul Gootenberg, 'Introduction: A New Global History of Drugs', in Paul Gootenberg (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History (Oxford University Press, 2022) • Benjamin Breen. Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade. Early Modern Americas. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), INTRODUCTION. Session 3 – May 5 – The Opium Trade and Early Prohibition • Anne L. Foster, “The Philippines, the United States, and the Origins of Global Narcotics Prohibition,” The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (Spring 2019) • Diana Kim, Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia (2020), Chapter 2 A Shared Turn: Opium and the Rise of Prohibition. Session 4 – May 12 – The Global Rise of Cocaine • Peter Thilly, “The Fujitsuru Mystery: Translocal Xiamen, Japanese Expansionism, and the Asian Cocaine Trade, 1900–1937,” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 1(25) (2017). • J. H. Mills, “Cocaine and the British Empire: The Drug and the Diplomats at the Hague Opium Conference, 1911–12,” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 42(3) , (2014), 400–419.
April 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Anatolian Opium and Its Marketing during World War I | The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 38, No 2 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#opium
#WWI
Anatolian Opium and Its Marketing during World War I | The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 38, No 2
Abstract Known for its narcotic properties since ancient times, opium became one of the basic raw materials of the pharmaceutical industry with the discovery of morphine, one of its main components, a...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
April 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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