This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
R.Fortune
R.Fortune
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- Mary Roach
Hah, this book on the Pendragon keeps discussing the Romans' last dying gasps. Of course, it takes place smack in the middle 400s, IIRC Rome fell around 465 or so, yes?
the "french" and "belgians" got their colonies hooked on heroin as well.. few know that china's power hierarchy is actually still owned by "western" powers who gave them massive wealth and political power after and because of the opium wars..
and who's soldiers are out in afghanistan making sure no harm comes to their opium crop ever??... the empires of course.. because heroin will be cheaper than cigarettes soon to encourage people to take that route out..