Secret trades, porous borders : smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915 / / Eric Tagliacozzo.

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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:xvi, 437 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Building the frontier : drawing lines in physical space. Mapping the frontier
  • Enforcing the frontier
  • Strengthening the frontier
  • Imagining the frontier : state visions of danger along the border. The specter of violence
  • "Foreign Asians" on the frontier
  • The indigenous threat
  • Secret trades, porous borders. The smuggling of narcotics
  • Counterfeiters across the frontier
  • Illicit human cargoes
  • The illegal weapons trade across the Anglo/Dutch frontier. Munitions and borders : arms in context
  • Praxis and evasion : arms in motion
  • A frontier story : the sorrows of Golam Merican. Contraband and the junk Kim Ban An
  • Worlds of illegality, 1873-99.