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Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915
Eric Tagliacozzo
ISBN: 9780300143300
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Yale University Press
Edition: illustrated edition
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Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia, and the smuggling activities of the opium traders, and currency runners, who pierced such newly drawn borders with success.
Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia, as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency runners, and human traffickers who pierced such newly drawn borders with growing success.The book presents a history of the evolution of this 3000-kilometre frontier, and then inquires into the smuggling of contraband: who smuggled and why, what routes were favoured, and how effectively the British and Dutch were able to enforce their economic, moral, and political will. Examining the history of states and smugglers playing off one another within a hidden but powerful economy of forbidden cargoes, the book also offers new insights into the modern political economies of Southeast Asia.
| ISBN | 0300143303 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780300143300
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 635 | | Publisher | Yale University Press | | Published in | New Haven | | Imprint | Yale University Press | | Series title | Yale Historical Publications , Miscellany | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 03 Feb 2009 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 959.04 | | Spine width (mm) | 28 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 454 | |
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