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Opium has played a dramatic and varied role in human history, inspiring religious veneration, scientific exploration, the bitterest rancor, and the most fanciful ecstasy. Now, authors Jeff Goldberg and Dean Latimer have provided a complete, insightful history of opium. Flowers in the Blood lifts the veil of mystery that has surrounded opium down through the ages.

History’s Bloodstains is a true crime and history podcast uncovering the murders, betrayals, and acts of violence that left permanent marks on civilization.Long after monuments fade and empires fall, some crimes remain written in blood.Each episode explores a real case from ancient and early history, telling the full story behind historical murders, political assassinations, poison plots, court conspiracies, and acts of betrayal that stained thrones, temples, battlefields, and dynasties. These are not rumors or legends—they are documented crimes preserved in ancient trials, chronicles, ...

The most highly regarded and affordable history of Latin America for our times. Born in Blood and Fire, Fourth Edition has been extensively revised to heighten emphasis on current cultural analyses of Latin American society and facilitate meaningful connections between the Encounter and the present.

The story was written. The voices were heard.But the echoes never stopped.Our Blood Runs Black — a legacy project born from the book, now carried forward through a weekly podcast. Honoring the miners, families, and the faith that held them together.

A look at American history connecting people, places, and events, all while attempting to craft a good story.

Unraveling the war that tore America apart — and still shapes us today. Blood and Union is a deep-dive history podcast exploring the American Civil War in all its complexity. Across multiple seasons, we uncover the causes, battles, leaders, and legacies of the conflict that defined a nation. From the compromises of the Founding Fathers to the fields of Gettysburg, from the heroism of the 54th Massachusetts to the failures of Reconstruction, we bring you the real stories — detailed, dramatic, and unflinching. Told in a conversational style with expert insights, Blood and Union combines ...

Legendary treasures. Mythical robberies. Lost riches. Buried plunder and fabulous wealth. Hidden dangers. Ancient curses and deathbed jinxes. Captivating tales of lost fortunes, hidden caches, the eternal allure of wealth, and the heartbreak of mysterious curses!

Tarot, Truth-telling and untamed conversations. Blood Moon Radio explores identity, intuition, and the magic of being too much.Created by Coraley Letcher and produced by Forest Nymph Media House, the show explores intuition, transformation, identity, and the power of speaking truth.Through conversations with artists, healers, historians, and rebels, the show weaves personal stories with cultural history, offering each guest a tarot reading as part of the exchange. Some episodes feature special guests, some stand solo, but all follow the pull of curiosity and connection.Whether we're unpacking ...

T. R. Fehrenbach brilliantly delineates the contrasts and conflicts between the many Mexicos, unraveling the history while weaving a fascinating tapestry of beauty and brutality: the Amerindians, who wrought from the vulnerable land a great indigenous Meso-American civilization by the first millennium BC; the successive reigns of Olmec, Maya, Toltec, and Mexic masters, who ruled through an admirably efficient bureaucracy and the power of the priests, propitiating the capricious gods with human sacrifices; the Spanish conquistadors, and much more.

Blood, Iron, and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world, linking cities that had hitherto been isolated, stimulating both economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Christian Wolmar describes the vision and determination of the pioneers who developed railways that would one day span continents, as well as the labour of the navvies who built this global network.

In most accounts of the origins of money, we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. In this groundbreaking study David McNally reveals the true story of money's origins and development as one of violence and human bondage. Money's emergence and its transformation are shown to be intimately connected to the buying and selling of slaves and the waging of war.

Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The ancestors of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today.

It was a frigid night in February 2013 when the five young fishermen vanished. The crew of the Miss Ally - a 12-metre Cape Islander from Woods Harbour, Nova Scotia - was fishing for halibut far off the Nova Scotia coast when their boat’s spotlight malfunctioned. A vicious winter storm was approaching from her south, and all other boats at the fishing grounds were steaming for shore. Unable to locate his longlining gear, the Miss Ally’s young captain decided to stay an extra day to retrieve the gear and, hopefully, a big catch.

On February 27, 1763, thousands of slaves in the Dutch colony of Berbice - in present-day Guyana - launched a massive rebellion that came amazingly close to succeeding. Surrounded by jungle and savannah, the revolutionaries (many of them African-born) and Europeans struck and parried for an entire year. In the end, the Dutch prevailed because of one unique advantage - their ability to get soldiers and supplies from neighboring colonies and from Europe. Blood on the River is the explosive story of this little-known revolution, one that almost changed the face of the Americas.

A FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE: A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame. Through...

Blood Rubber: How the Amazon Died tells the extraordinary story of one of the blackest episodes in Amazonian history, known as the Putumayo Affair. In 1907, Walter Hardenburg, a young American explorer and engineer, was canoeing slowly down a meandering tributary of the great river, in deepest Amazonia, in search of adventure. The realm of Captain Kurtz’s Apocalypse Now seems tame by comparison with what he found through the mist up ahead.

Bratwurst & Blood serves you true crime from Germany – raw, disturbing, and unforgiving. Behind beer, forests, and order hides a nation shaped by war, trauma, and brutal minds. These are the stories from its darkest corners. Listener discretion is strongly advised. What if the real horror wasn't fiction – but German?

A Mother-Daugther Storytelling Podcast. Co-hosted by Marcia and Amy. Marcia, the logical mother, hosts with her creative daughter, Amy, to deliver a unique experience sharing strange, spooky, historical & fascinating stories. Join us every other Thursday to be entertained and entangled in our stories.

Blood of a Buckeye delves into the history, true crime, paranormal, and urban legends of Ohio. I'll also discuss things not necessarily pertaining to the state directly, but things that will touch on it, or just what I find interesting in general, being I grew up in Ohio.Supporter link:https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/blood-of-a-buckeye--4855824/support

Blood and Oil is the New Orleans history podcast that starts after the tourist booklets end. Join hosts Lauren Whitley-Haney & Kenny Haney as they detail the story of industry & violence in 1900s South Louisiana plantation country.