Footnote 3 This designation was sometimes applied to women who administered poison to their victim concealed in food or drink. One example from India’s antiquity was the attempt on the life of the Mauryan king Chandragupta, a contemporary of Alexander the Great, in the fourth century BCE, by means of a ‘poison maiden’. India has a long history, often inseparable from myth, of poison practices. From the death of Socrates, condemned to drink hemlock in Athens in 399 BCE, through the poison-laced intrigues of the Borgias in Renaissance Italy, to the murder of the Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, poisoning has been deployed as an instrument of state – to remove rivals and dissidents, to eliminate individuals whose popularity had grown too great, to punish those suspected of betrayal and treachery. Poisoning has always had public roles and political uses. The function of this chapter, however, is to establish as a baseline the quotidian existence of poisons in Indian society in the nineteenth century, to show how and why poisons were, in the main, everyday objects. Footnote 2 Later chapters of this book are concerned with the public face of poisons, with the politicization and governance of poisonous substances. Their cultural signification is informed by history, religion and myth, and their status and character are influenced by local, as well as global, configurations of race, class and gender. They exist within a social matrix that endows them with specific meanings and distinct usages. As material substances, poisons have ‘social lives’. They are registers of experience – of the poverty and desperation, for instance, that might drive an individual to murder or to suicide. Footnote 1 As such, poisons help us to appreciate the nature and texture of people’s lives, the material circumstances of their daily existence. They belong to a history of ‘everyday things’. Some poisons may be rare and exotic, but most are common substances. For much of history they have been commodities, much like any others, that are bought, sold and exchanged, and have served a wide range of commercial, industrial, medicinal and domestic uses. I’ll keep you posted when I hear anything more, but in the mean time, there's more info to puruse over on the official site here.įor more Gamescom coverage, be sure to check out our Gamescom 2022 hub for all the latest news, impressions from the show floor and more.Poisons are material objects. The Great War: Western Front is scheduled to release sometime in 2023. I’ll be watching The Great War with interest. In his C&C Remastered review, Steve Hogarty called it “as close to a perfect restoration as you’ll get, and the treatment these genre-defining games deserve”. They’ve made games such as Star Wars: Empire At War, 8-Bit Armies and the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection. Petroglyph Games were founded back in 2003 by some ex-Westwood Studios staff. Technologies from the period such as poison gas and tanks will be options to research, which is fairly intimidating, and you’ll need to choose where to invest your resources and place your fortifications carefully to avoid them being overrun by the enemy. You’ll have to step into the roles of theatre commander and field commander to wage your campaign, making decisions in turn-based grand strategy and in real-time battles.
The Great War encompasses the entire length of WW1. Watch on YouTube The Great War: Western Front is a newly announced RTS set in one of the deadliest theatres of the First World War.
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