Ch12.1. “The Stacking Room”

back to images & maps Ch12.1. “The Stacking Room” “The Stacking Room,” 1882. British Library. Opium made the British vast sums of money. Indian opium became a global commodity in the nineteenth century, spreading everywhere from San Francisco to Europe and, especially, across China. The opium plant produces drugs such as morphine and codeine and, […]