The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West - Ahmad, Diana L.
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This meticulously researched study of the nineteenth-century drug-abuse crisis reveals the ways moral crusaders linked their anti-opium rhetoric to already active demands for Chinese exclusion. Ahmad describes the disparities between Anglo-American perceptions of Chinese immigrants and the sombre realities of these people's lives, especially the role that opium-smoking came to play in the Anglo-American community, mostly among middle- and upper-class women.

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This meticulously researched study of the nineteenth-century drug-abuse crisis reveals the ways moral crusaders linked their anti-opium rhetoric to already active demands for Chinese exclusion. Ahmad describes the disparities between Anglo-American perceptions of Chinese immigrants and the sombre realities of these people's lives, especially the role that opium-smoking came to play in the Anglo-American community, mostly among middle- and upper-class women.
Autorenporträt
Diana L. Ahmad received her PhD at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is a University of Missouri Curators' Teaching Professor of History at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, where she specializes in the history of the American West, the Pacific, and Modern East Asia. She is the author of The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West.