Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition Across Southeast Asia

ISBN-13: 9780691172408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 336 str.

Diana Kim

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A history of opium's dramatic fall from favor in colonial Southeast AsiaDuring 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