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Empires of Vice

The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia
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A history of opium's dramatic fall from favor in colonial Southeast Asia During 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 imposing a tax on a peculiar vice of their non-Eu

Author Biography:

Diana S. Kim is assistant professor of political science at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Release date NZ
August 10th, 2021
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
20 b/w illus. 6 tables. 6 maps.
Pages
336
ISBN-13
9780691199702
Product ID
34678946

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