Testimonials
"I like how the website hammers us over the head with the only too recognizable continuity of the racialized and gendered industrialization and profiteering and imperial or hyper-nationalist control of addiction processes and the centrality of imperial wars and alliances."
"The narrative framing of opium as both a wartime "gift" and a source of long-term harm is clear, compelling, and well supported by your research. From my 28 years of military service, your work resonated on an additional level."
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'The Gift' by Marcel Mauss
'Sweetness and Power' by Sydney Mintz
'Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena, from Play and Reality' by D. W. Winnicott
https://winnicott-trust.org.uk/about/about-donald-winnicott/
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/economics/commodity-fetishism
https://asiapacificcurriculum.ca/learning-module/opium-wars-china
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-differences-doctors.html
https://www.history.com/articles/history-of-heroin-morphine-and-opiates
https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/about/understanding-the-opioid-overdose-epidemic.html
https://virginiahistory.org/learn/opiate-addiction-civil-wars-aftermath
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/medicine-in-virginia-during-the-civil-war/
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/race-opioids-lessons-civil-war-era-opioid-addiction-crisis
https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/about/understanding-the-opioid-overdose-epidemic.html
https://asiapacificcurriculum.ca/learning-module/opium-wars-china
https://www.nelson.edu/thoughthub/history/7-interesting-features-of-world-war-ii-one-for-each-year/
https://pixels.com/featured/the-battle-of-atlanta-war-is-hell-store.html
https://www.realsimple.com/how-to-come-up-with-good-gift-ideas-8752818
https://www.college-de-france.fr/en/chair/marcel-mauss-sociology-statutory-chair/biography
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/us/sidney-mintz-father-of-food-anthropology-dies-at-93.html
https://winnicott-trust.org.uk/about/about-donald-winnicott/
https://www.doubletrees.org.uk/blog/?pid=21&nid=9&storyid=299
https://marylandreporter.com/2018/12/04/commentary-opioid-epidemic-started-with-the-civil-war/
https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/united-states-colored-troops-1863-1865/
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/women-during-the-civil-war/
https://cwba.blogspot.com/2025/11/booknotes-opium-slavery.html
https://magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/brief-history-opioids-us?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://virginiahistory.org/learn/opiate-addiction-civil-wars-aftermath?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/china-boxer-rebellion-torajiro-kasai.html
https://www.namd.org/journal-of-medicine/1950-how-world-war-i-revolutionized-medicine.html
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/new-global-power-after-world-war-ii-1945
https://doughboy.org/the-influence-of-world-war-i-on-the-opioid-epidemic/
https://www.magellantv.com/articles/a-war-with-drugs-wwiis-amphetaminefueled-armies
https://asiapacificcurriculum.ca/learning-module/opium-wars-china
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/world-war-i-medicine/517656/