Opium Regimes
Title | Opium Regimes PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Brook |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 470 |
Release | 2000-09-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520222366 |
Opium Regimes draws on a range of research to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation, but involved Chinese merchants and state agents, and Japanese imperial agents as well.
Opium Regimes
Title | Opium Regimes PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Brook |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 444 |
Release | 2000-08-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780756783433 |
Papers presented at a conference on the history of opium in East Asia. Includes: Opium for China: The British Connection; Opium in Late-Edo to Meiji Eyes; Drugs, Taxes, & Chinese Capitalism in SE Asia; The Hong Kong Opium Revenue, 1845-1885; Drug Oper. by Resident Japanese in Tianjin; Opium/Leisure/Shanghai: Urban Economies of Consumption; The National Anti-Opium Assoc. & the Guomindang State, 1924-1937; Opium Control vs. Opium Suppression; The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication Campaigns & the Poppy Tax, 1907-1949; Opium & Collaboration in Central China, 1938-1940; Japan vs. the Wang Jingwei Regime; Resistance to Opium as a Social Evil in Wartime China; & The Anti-drug Crusade in the People's Rep., 1949-1951; etc.
A State Built on Sand
Title | A State Built on Sand PDF eBook |
Author | David Mansfield |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 382 |
Release | 2016-05-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0190694602 |
Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately linked with its own state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were cited as evidence of failure by those international donors who spearheaded development in poppy-growing provinces like Helmand, Nangarhar and Kandahar. Mansfield's book examines why drug control - particularly opium bans - have been imposed in Afghanistan; he documents the actors involved; and he scrutinizes how prohibition served divergent and competing interests. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in rural areas, he explains how these bans affected farming communities, and how prohibition endured in some areas while in others opium production bans undermined livelihoods and destabilized the political order, fuelling violence and rural rebellion. Above all this book challenges how we have come to understand political power in rural Afghanistan. Far from being the passive recipients of violence by state and non-state actors, Mansfield highlights the role that rural communities have played in shaping the political terrain, including establishing the conditions under which they could persist with opium production.
Empires of Vice
Title | Empires of Vice PDF eBook |
Author | Diana S. Kim |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2021-08-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0691199701 |
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.
Opium’s Long Shadow
Title | Opium’s Long Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Steffen Rimner |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2018-11-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674916212 |
In 1920 the League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs captured eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking. Steffen Rimner shows how local protests crossed imperial, national, and colonial boundaries to harness naming and shaming in international politics—a deterrent that continues today.
The Social Life of Opium in China
Title | The Social Life of Opium in China PDF eBook |
Author | Yangwen Zheng |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2005-09-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521846080 |
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History of the Opium Problem
Title | History of the Opium Problem PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Derks |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 851 |
Release | 2012-04-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004221581 |
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.