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Author: Carl A. Trocki Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501746359 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 279
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Breaking new ground in the historiography of the overseas Chinese and British colonialism, this book focuses on two areas largely ignored by students of the period—opium and the economic role of the group of institutions known as kongsi, or secret societies.
Author: Carl A. Trocki Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501746359 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 279
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Breaking new ground in the historiography of the overseas Chinese and British colonialism, this book focuses on two areas largely ignored by students of the period—opium and the economic role of the group of institutions known as kongsi, or secret societies.
Author: A. Wright Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137317604 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 187
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This study investigates the connections between opium policy and imperialism in Burma. It examines what influenced the imperial regime's opium policy decisions, such as racial ideologies, the necessity of articulating a convincing rationale for British governance, and Burma's position in multiple imperial and transnational networks.
Author: Carl Trocki Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113511899X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 226
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Drug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book takes a long look at the history of our relationship with mind-altering substances. Engagingly written, with lay readers as much as specialists in mind, this book will be fascinating reading for historians, social scientists, as well as those involved in Asian studies, or economic history.
Author: A. Wright Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137317604 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 221
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This study investigates the connections between opium policy and imperialism in Burma. It examines what influenced the imperial regime's opium policy decisions, such as racial ideologies, the necessity of articulating a convincing rationale for British governance, and Burma's position in multiple imperial and transnational networks.
Author: Diana S. Kim Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691199701 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 330
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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.
Author: Hans Derks Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004221581 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 851
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Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was introduced in India and Indonesia by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium problem around 1950.
Author: Hans Derks Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004225897 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 850
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Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was introduced in India and Indonesia by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium problem around 1950.
Author: Alfred W. McCoy Publisher: Haymarket Books ISBN: 1608467740 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 359
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The award-winning historian delivers a “brilliant and deeply informed” analysis of American power from the Spanish-American War to the Trump Administration (New York Journal of Books). In this sweeping and incisive history of US foreign relations, historian Alfred McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power from the 1890s through the Cold War, and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century. Since American dominance reached its apex at the close of the Cold War, the nation has met new challenges that it is increasingly unequipped to handle. From the disastrous invasion of Iraq to the failure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, fracturing military alliances, and the blundering nationalism of Donald Trump, McCoy traces US decline in the face of rising powers such as China. He also offers a critique of America’s attempt to maintain its position through cyberwar, covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781303634437 Category : Languages : en Pages : 293
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This dissertation analyzes the rise of opium Prohibition in colonial Southeast Asia. Over the course of six decades spanning the turn of the 20th century, European powers in the region abandoned opium as a lucrative source of revenue, denouncing as dangerous what had once been defended as an integral part of overseas political economy. Amidst this shared shift however, colonial states traveled very different paths--introducing Prohibition based on competing justifications, through distinctive institutions, and at various moments in time. What explains these divergent trajectories and how did colonial states come to commonly criminalize opium? What does this pattern of equifinality reveal about the enterprise of building colonial states, Empire, and political order more generally? Conventional scholarship on drugs and empire approaches these questions from the perspective of great power politics, global economic changes, or moral and religious crusades. By contrast, my analysis highlights the role of overseas bureaucrats and their local statecraft. It develops a comparative and historical analysis of British and French opium regimes in Burma, Laos, and Siam from 1870 to 1935 that identifies the mechanisms by which on-the-ground administrators in peripheral colonies helped at once articulate and answer the "opium question;"--namely, what constituted the best interest of colonial subjects with regards to the use, sale, and inland trade of opium. Specifically, this project traces how the everyday work of these modest actors (i.e., district-level record keeping, compiling routine reports, the creation of racial labels and categories, as well as jurisdictional dispute resolutions) generated immodest claims to unique expertise and ethnographic competence over unfamiliar people and their practices; how such claims traveled and became persuasive beyond the colonies; and the recursive consequences of these discursive processes. It reveals the surprisingly strong powers of relatively weak administrators who, in effect, defined opium's putative problems in overseas colonies and justified corresponding legal and policy reforms to solve these problems. My analysis thus elucidates how the local production of colonial knowledge provided the conditions of possibility for Empire's penal turn against opium. Theoretically, this project intervenes in a key debate in political science regarding why states respond differently to similar political, economic, and social crises by addressing a prior yet often overlooked question: how do states define the very crises to which they respond? And by explaining how colonial states reconfigured opium from a once legal and lucrative source of revenue into a dangerous drug, this dissertation invites further consideration of how states define problems and what bearings this capacity has upon other mechanisms of state power and market control.
Author: James Robert Rush Publisher: Equinox Publishing ISBN: 9789793780498 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 300
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Opium smoking was a widespread social custom in nineteenth-century Java, and commercial trade in opium had far-reaching economic and political implications. As in many of the Dutch territories in the Indonesian archipelago, the drug was imported from elsewhere and sold throughout the island under a government monopoly - a system of revenue "farms". These monopoly franchises were regulated by the government and operated by members of Java's Chinese elite, who were frequently also local officials appointed by the Dutch. The farms thus helped support large Chinese patronage networks that vied for control of rural markets throughout Java. James Rush explains the workings of the opium farm system during its mature years by measuring the social, economic, and political reach of these monopolies within the Dutch-dominated colonial society. His analysis of the opium farm incorporates the social history of opium smoking in Java and of the Chinese officer elite that dominated not only the opium farming but also the island's Chinese community and much of its commercial economy. He describes the relations among the various classes of Chinese and Javanese, as well as the relation of the Chinese elite to the Dutch, and he traces the political interplay that smuggling and the black market stimulated among all these elements. An important contribution to the social and political history of Southeast Asia and now brought back to life as a member of Equinox Publishing's Classic Indonesia series, this book gives a new dimension to our knowledge of nineteenth-century Javanese society and the processes of social control and economic dominance during the colonial period. JAMES R. RUSH is a historian of modern Southeast Asia whose other works include The Last Tree: Reclaiming the Environment in Tropical Asia; Java: A Travellers' Anthology; and several volumes of contemporary Asian biography in the Ramon Magsaysay Awards series. His is associate professor of history at Arizona State University.
Author: Carl A. Trocki
Author: Carl A. Trocki
Author: A. Wright
Author: Carl Trocki
Author: A. Wright
Author: Diana S. Kim
Author: Hans Derks
Author: Hans Derks
Author: Alfred W. McCoy
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Author: James Robert Rush