Empires of Vice : : The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia / / Diana S. Kim.
A history of opium’s dramatic fall from favor in colonial Southeast AsiaDuring the late nineteenth century, opium was integral to European colonial rule in Southeast Asia. The taxation of opium was a major source of revenue for British and French colonizers, who also derived moral authority from imp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Histories of Economic Life ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 20 b/w illus. 6 tables. 6 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Terms Used
- Part I
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Shared Turn: Opium and the Rise of Prohibition
- 3. The Different Lives of Southeast Asia’s Opium Monopolies
- Part II
- 4. “Morally Wrecked” in British Burma, 1870s–1890s
- 5. Fiscal Dependency in British Malaya, 1890s–1920s
- 6. Disastrous Abundance in French Indochina, 1920s–1940s
- Part III
- 7. Colonial Legacies
- 8. Conclusion
- Appendix
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index