Opium's long shadow : from Asian revolt to global drug control /

The League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, created in 1920, reversed almost eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking, which was by far the largest state-backed drug trade in the age of empire. Opponents of opium had long struggled to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rimner, Steffen, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Temas:
League of Nations. > Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs.
League of Nations. > Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs
1900-1999
Opium trade > History > 20th century.
Drug control > International cooperation > History > 20th century.
Social reformers > History > 20th century.
Opium > Commerce > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Lutte antidrogue > Coopération internationale > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Réformateurs sociaux > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Drug control > International cooperation
Opium trade
Social reformers
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Thunders before the storm
  • The porosity of international law
  • Grounds of objection: India, America, Asia
  • Britain's last defense: the anti-opium cause on trial
  • The Japanese blueprint and its American discovery
  • Activists into diplomats: toward the International Opium Commission
  • The drugs of war: Germany, Japan, and the morphine threat
  • Toward international accountability for transnational harm.

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