Secret Trades, Porous Borders : Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915 /

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Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, curr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tagliacozzo, Eric (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]
Colección:Yale Historical Publications Series
Temas:
Counterfeits and counterfeiting > History > Southeast Asia.
Counterfeits and counterfeiting > Southeast Asia > History.
Drug traffic > History > Southeast Asia.
Drug traffic > Southeast Asia > History.
Illegal arms transfers > History > Southeast Asia.
Illegal arms transfers > Southeast Asia > History.
Smuggling > History > Southeast Asia.
Smuggling > Southeast Asia > History.
HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Orthography and Usage
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Creating the Frontier: Border Formation and the State
  • Section I. Building the Frontier
  • Chapter 2. Mapping the Frontier
  • Chapter 3. Enforcing the Frontier
  • Chapter 4. Strengthening the Frontier
  • Section II. Imagining the Frontier
  • Chapter 5. The Specter of Violence
  • Chapter 6. "Foreign Asians" on the Frontier
  • Chapter 7. The Indigenous Threat
  • Part II. Crossing the Frontier: Smuggling, Profit, and Resistance
  • Section III. Secret Trades, Porous Borders
  • Chapter 8. The Smuggling of Narcotics
  • Chapter 9. Counterfeiters Across the Frontier
  • Chapter 10. Illicit Human Cargoes
  • Section IV. The Illegal Weapons Trade Across the Anglo/Dutch Frontier
  • Chapter 11. Munitions and Borders: Arms in Context
  • Chapter 12. Praxis and Evasion: Arms in Motion
  • Section V. A Frontier Story: The Sorrows of Golam Merican
  • Chapter 13. Contraband and the Junk Kim Ban An
  • Chapter 14. Worlds of Illegality, 1873-99
  • Chapter 15. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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