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Mentioned in 5 episodes

Smoke and Ashes

Book • 2025
Author
Amitav Ghosh

Mentioned by

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 William Dalrymple
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 Anita Anand
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 Dan Hill
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 David Naiman

Mentioned in 5 episodes

Recommended by William Dalrymple as a great book on the opium wars.
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248. Victorian Narcos: Sex, Drugs, & The Opium Agency (Ep 2)
Mentioned by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand as a source of information about the opium trade in India.
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251. Victorian Narcos: Flooding China With Indian Opium (Ep 5)
Mentioned by William Dalrymple as a book drawing parallels between China's post-Opium War soul-searching and the rise of MAGA and Trump.
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255. Victorian Narcos: From Opium To Fentanyl (Ep 9)
Mentioned by William Dalrymple as a fabulous book on the Opium Wars.
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254. Victorian Narcos: Fire Monkeys, Iron Gunships, & Peasant Warfare (Ep 8)
Recommended by Dan Hill for its exploration of unforeseen consequences in system design.
AI as Infrastructure with Dan Hill
David Naiman mentions it as Amitav Ghosh's book where plants are posited as protagonists.
Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive?

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