Empires of vice : the rise of opium prohibition across Southeast Asia /

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"Though today opiates are highly controlled substances and generally viewed as menaces to society, the opium trade was once licit and profitable, both for merchants and for the governments to which they paid taxes. During the late nineteenth century, British and French colonies in Southeast Asi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kim, Diana S., 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Series:Histories of economic life.
Subjects:
Opium trade > Southeast Asia > History.
Opium trade > Political aspects > Southeast Asia.
Opium trade > Malaysia > Malaya > History.
Opium trade > Indochina > History.
Opium trade > Burma > History.
Opium > Commerce > Asie du Sud-Est > Histoire.
Opium > Commerce > Aspect politique > Asie du Sud-Est.
Opium > Commerce > Indochine > Histoire.
Opium > Commerce > Birmanie > Histoire.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
British colonies.
Colonies > Administration.
French colonies.
Opium trade.
France > Colonies > Asia > Administration.
Great Britain > Colonies > Asia > Administration.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Asie > Administration.
Asia.
Burma.
Indochina.
Malaya.
Southeast Asia.
Ashley Wright.
Bernardo Zacka.
British colonialism.
British empire.
Carl Trocki.
French Indochina.
French colonialism.
From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control.
George Steinmetz.
James Rush.
James Scott.
Mara Loveman.
National Colors.
Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia.
Opium and Empire.
Opium to Java.
Opium's Long Shadow.
Seeing Like a State.
Steffen Rimner.
The Devil's Handwriting.
When the State Meets the Street.
drug addiction.
history of empire.
history of narcotics.
history of opium.
history of the opium trade.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A Shared Turn : Opium and the Rise of Prohibition
  • The Different Lives of Southeast Asia's Opium Monopolies
  • "Morally Wrecked" in British Burma, 1870s-1890s
  • Fiscal Dependency in British Malaya, 1890s-1920s
  • Disastrous Abundance in French Indochina, 1920s-1940s
  • Colonial Legacies.

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