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Title:

Drugs and empires : essays in modern imperialism and intoxication, c.1500-c.1930 / edited by James H. Mills and Patricia Barton.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

x, 252 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Colonies
Drug traffic
Drug control.
Drug control--International cooperation.

Other Authors:

Mills, James H., 1970-
Barton, Patricia, 1960-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

China, British imperialism and the myth of the 'opium plague' / Frank Dik©œtter, Lars Laamann, and Xun Zhou -- Developing habits : opium and tobacco in the Indonesian archipelago, c. 1619-c. 1794 / George Bryan Souza -- Early British encounters with the Indian opium eater / Richard Newman -- 'Cannot we induce the people of England to eat opium?' The moral economy of opium in colonial India / John F. Richards -- Opium and the trading world of western India in the early nineteenth century / Amar Farooqui -- Dangerous drinks and the colonial state : 'illicit' gin prohibition and control in colonial Nigeria / Chima J. Korieh -- Empire and excise : drugs and drink revenue and the fate of states in South Asia / Marc Jason Gilbert -- Powders, potions and tablets : the 'quinine fraud' in British India, 1890-1939 / Patricia Barton -- Colonial Africa and the international politics of cannabis : Egypt, South Africa and the origins of global control / James H. Mills -- 'A grave danger to the peace of the East' : opium and imperial rivalry in China, 1895-1920 / William O. Walker III -- 'Wolf by the ears' : the dilemmas of imperial opium policymaking in the twentieth century / William B. McAllister -- The trade-off : Chinese opium traders and antebellum reform in the United States, 1815-1860 / Elizabeth Kelly Gray.

ISBN:

9780230516519 (alk. paper)
0230516513 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)173640790

LCCN:

2007038453

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)