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Imperial intoxication : alcohol and the making of colonial Indochina /

Making liquor isn't rocket science: some raw materials, a stove, and a few jury-rigged pots are all that's really needed. So when the colonial regime in turn-of-the-century French Indochina banned homemade rice liquor, replacing it with heavily taxed, tasteless alcohol from French-owned fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sasges, Gerard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
Series:Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Inheritances
  • A scientific monopoly
  • Fiscal logics
  • The limits of sovereignty
  • The great service
  • Oppression, resistance, rebellion
  • The political economy of alcohol
  • Evolutions.