British, Jewish, and Yankee Opium: A History of Opium from its Beginnings in Switzerland to How a Government, a Family, and a Few Americans Debauched - Paperback

by Thomas James Adams (Author)

This book is largely a shameful and ghastly history of death -- of the shriveled and slowly-wasting bodies of millions of Chinese addicts. The British Company's employees, the Bene-Israel Jews of Baghdad and Bombay, and the Americans of New England were family men, nearly all were conspicuously devout, well-educated for the time, and thoughtful -- yet they sustained this slaughter of their fellow human beings for nearly two centuries. The power of money stifled all other considerations.

Author Biography

Tom Adams' degrees: BA - Kent State University (OH); BFT - American Institute for Foreign Trade (Glendale, AZ); MS - San Francisco State University (CA); PhD - University of California Berkeley; MA - California State University, Sacramento. He held various professional jobs in Ohio, Montana, Venezuela, and California before going into education for 34 years as Professor of Economics, Marketing, and Accounting at Sacramento City College (CA). Tom also operated a 90-acre vineyard while teaching and authoring college textbooks on these same subjects for McGraw-Hill and other publishers.