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Study skills. --- Ghosh, Amitav, --- Study and teaching.

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Myth in literature. --- Achebe, Chinua --- Ghosh, Amitav, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"Amitav Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family-the climax of a yearslong project"--

Opium trade --- History --- Ghosh, Amitav, --- Travel --- Family. --- China --- India --- Great Britain --- Commerce --- History.

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Overview: Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.

Jewish merchants --- Slaves --- Jewish merchants. --- Slaves. --- Travel. --- Slavernij. --- Ghosh, Amitav, --- Ben Yijû, Abraham, --- Bomma, --- Travel --- Voyages --- Egypt.

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When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising at all, however, was the discovery that his own identity and family history was swept up in the story. Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, memoir and a history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large. The trade was engineered by the British Empire, which exported Indian opium to sell to China and redress their great trade imbalance, and its revenues were essential to the Empire's financial survival. Yet tracing the profits further, Ghosh finds opium at the origins of some of the world's biggest corporations, of America's most powerful families and prestigious institutions (from the Astors and Coolidges to the Ivy League), and of contemporary globalism itself. Moving deftly between horticultural histories, the mythologies of capitalism, and the social and cultural repercussions of colonialism, in Smoke and Ashes Amitav Ghosh reveals the role that one small plant had in making our world, now teetering on the edge of catastrophe.

Opium --- Opium trade. --- Commerce --- Histoire. --- Ghosh, Amitav, --- China --- India --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Chine --- Inde --- Commerce --- History --- Commerce --- History --- Commerce --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Histoire.