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03215aam a2200361 i 4500 001 5FF64AB8875711E9A56C064497128E48 003 SILO 005 20190605010028 008 180417t20182018mauab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018012858 020 $a 0674976304 020 $a 9780674976306 035 $a (OCoLC)1028623902 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d OCLCO $d TOH $d HLS $d YDX $d NYP $d OCLCO $d IUL $d OBE $d YUS $d UKMGB $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d TFW $d NJB $d COO $d COD $d TEU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HV5816 R565 2018 100 1 $a Rimner, Steffen, $d 1983- $e author. 245 10 $a Opium's long shadow : $b from Asian revolt to global drug control / $c Steffen Rimner. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a x, 373 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-358) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Thunders before the storm -- The porosity of international law -- Grounds of objection : India, America, Asia -- Britain's last defense : the anti-opium cause on trial -- The Japanese blueprint and its American discovery -- Activists into diplomats : toward the International Opium Commission -- The drugs of war : Germany, Japan, and the morphine threat -- Toward international accountability for transnational harm -- Conclusion. 520 $a The League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, created in 1920, reversed almost eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking, which was by far the largest state-backed drug trade in the age of empire. Opponents of opium had long struggled to rein in the profitable drug. Opium's Long Shadow shows how diverse local protests crossed imperial, national, and colonial boundaries to gain traction globally and harness public opinion as a moral deterrent in international politics after World War I. Steffen Rimner traces the far-flung itineraries and trenchant arguments of reformers--significantly, feminists and journalists--who viewed opium addiction as a root cause of poverty, famine, "white slavery," and moral degradation. These activists targeted the international reputation of drug-trading governments, first and foremost Great Britain, British India, and Japan, becoming pioneers of the global political tactic we today call naming and shaming. But rather than taking sole responsibility for their own behavior, states in turn appropriated anti-drug criticism to shame fellow sovereigns around the globe. Consequently, participation in drug control became a prerequisite for membership in the twentieth-century international community.-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a League of Nations. $b Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs. 650 0 $a Opium trade $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Drug control $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Social reformers $x History $y 20th century. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20200318013253.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190806075326.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5FF64AB8875711E9A56C064497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search