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Empire of Crime

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Empire of Crime

By Tim Newark

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About the book

When Great Britain took the moral high ground and banned its lucrative export of opium from Imperial India to China, it unleashed a century of criminality. Where America's misguided Prohibition of alcohol made illicit fortunes for the Mafia, across the pond the organized criminals within the British Empire grew rich on their trade in illegal narcotics in the 20th century. Empire of Crime is the first book to reveal the full extent and variety of organized crime within the British Empire in the 2...Show more

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9781526713049

Publisher

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Published year

2017

Language

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1

Original title

Empire of Crime

Format

Hardcover

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