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Smoke and ashes : (Record no. 212537)
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| fixed length control field | 02554nam a22002415i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 23307776 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240522122041.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 230905s2023 ii 000 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2023346883 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789356992757 (hardback) |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Source of stock number/acquisition | Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE | |
| Authentication code | lcode |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 338.47362293 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Smoke and ashes : |
| Remainder of title | a writer's journey through opium's hidden histories / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Amitav Ghosh. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Gurugram : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | HarperCollins Publishers, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2023. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | vii, 397 pages |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | Rs. 699.00 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | One Here Be Dragons;<br/>Two Seeds;<br/>Three 'An Actor in Its Own Right';<br/>Four Frenemies;<br/>Five The Opium Department;<br/>Six Big Brother;<br/>Seven Visions;<br/>Eight Family Story;<br/>Nine Malwa;<br/>Ten East and West;<br/>Eleven Diasporas;<br/>Twelve Boston Brahmins;<br/>Thirteen American Stories;<br/>Fourteen Guangzhou;<br/>Fifteen The Sea-Calming Tower;<br/>Sixteen Pillar of Empire;<br/>Seventeen Parallels;<br/>Eighteen Portents;<br/>Acknowledgements;<br/>Copyright;<br/>Acknowledgements;<br/>Notes.<br/> |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by a precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising of all was the discovery that his own identity and family history were swept up in the story.<br/><br/>Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, a memoir and an excursion into history, both economic and cultural. Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India and China, as well as on the world at large. Engineered by the British Empire, which exported opium from India to sell in China, the trade and its revenues were essential to the Empire’s survival. Upon deeper exploration, Ghosh finds opium at the origins of some of the world’s biggest corporations, several of America’s most powerful families and institutions, and contemporary globalism itself. In India the long-term consequences were even more profound.<br/><br/>Moving deftly between horticultural histories, the mythologies of capitalism and the social and cultural repercussions of colonialism, Smoke and Ashes reveals the pivotal role one small plant has played in the making of the world as we know it – a world that is now teetering on the edge of catastrophe. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | BOOKs |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Materials specified (bound volume or other part) | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | HB | . | . | General Stacks | 22.05.2024 | Purchased - Technical Bureau India | 699.00 | 338.47362293 GHO | 39617 | 22.05.2024 | 22.05.2024 | BOOKs | Recommended by Dr. Manpreet Singh Dillon |