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Humiliation that began about the opium war but at the same time it is easy for a lot of people including myself to think of Something Like the opium war like an anomaly or something very particular to very particular timer and place and i have to stand guilty of thinking about the opium war thatbo way. But great scholarship, truly great scholarship like killer hi, a lot of work that is done at the Lawson Institute forces us and me to see the world in a totally new way. This book has forced me and enforces all readers to really focus on the internal and incredibly expansive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from work conducted by people who were often on a form of drug, some kind of psychoactive substance and it extends towards an conquest of drugs or the raw material for drugs and it extends to wars for markets and for outlets of drugs and of cou ....
Booktv. Org. Now we kick off the weekend with historian Leeanna Keith who looks at the origins of the Republican Party. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Cspan is here, so thats why our lights are super bright. Welcome, my name is kate whitman, and i am the Vice President of community engagement, and im delighted to have you all here. Tonights presentation is a livingston lecture made possible through generous funding of the livingston foundation. Please join me in thank them. [applause] and now to introduce our speaker for thissen evening who will tell you why she is sitting down like this. Leeanna keith teaches history at the Collegiate School for boys in new york city. Shes the author of the colfax massacre, untold story of black power. And most recentl ....
Tonights presentation please join me in thanking them. [applause] and now to introduce our speaker for this evening who will tell you, Leeanna Keith is at the Collegiate School for boys in your city she is author of the untold story of the glass tower and most recently present article of the civil war the publication had this to say, sense of detailed accounts radicals and republicans at the roots for the civil rights movement. And socalled radical republicans. [inaudible] mainstream american and during the civil war. Please join me in welcoming Leeanna Keith. Cement thanks everybody to please forgive me for remaining seated. I just wanted tell you what happened to me i know you you want to hide broke my leg, which is a cement mixer pulled up beside me and sideswipe me and so i feel very lucky to be here at all. And i w ....
The cspan online store has book tv products, go to cspanstore. Org to check them out. See all the book tv and cspan products available. Good afternoon. I am the director of the Boston Institute for International Public affairs and i am so delighted to be here today to celebrate killer high. As a student of Chinese Affairs are hardly have to be told about the important of the relationship between drugs and war. Of course i know the intensity of feelings in china about the century of humiliation that begin with the opium war but at the same time, it is easy for a lot of people including myself to think of Something Like the opium war as in the mom and we or something very particular to a time and place and i have to say im guilty of thinking about the opium w ....