Imperial Intoxication : : Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina /

Imperial Intoxication : : Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina / / Gerard Sasges; ed. by David P. Chandler, Rita Smith Kipp.

Making liquor isn't rocket science: some raw materials, a stove, and a few jury-rigged pots are all that's really needed. So when the colonial regime in turn-of-the-century French Indochina banned homemade rice liquor, replacing it with heavily taxed, tasteless alcohol from French-owned fa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
VerfasserIn:
Sasges, Gerard,
HerausgeberIn:
Chandler, David P.,
Kipp, Rita Smith,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 8 b&w illustrations, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Usage and Sources
  • Introduction
  • 1. Inheritances
  • 2. A Scientific Monopoly
  • 3. Fiscal Logics
  • 4. The Limits of Sovereignty
  • 5. The Great Service
  • 6. Oppression, Resistance, Rebellion
  • 7. The Political Economy of Alcohol
  • 8. Evolutions
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix One: Ingredients in Chinese Ferment
  • Appendix Two: Alcohol Use in Upland Regions
  • Appendix Three: The Fontaine Group
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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