Empires of Vice (eBook)

The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia

Diana S. Kim (Autor)

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2020
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19969-6 (ISBN)

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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-European subjects. Yet between the 1890s and the 1940s, colonial states began to ban opium, upsetting the very foundations of overseas rulehow did this happen? Empires of Vice traces the history of this dramatic reversal, revealing the colonial legacies that set the stage for the region's drug problems today.Diana Kim challenges the conventional wisdom about opium prohibitionthat it came about because doctors awoke to the dangers of drug addiction or that it was a response to moral crusadersuncovering a more complex story deep within the colonial bureaucracy. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence across Southeast Asia and Europe, she shows how prohibition was made possible by the pivotal contributions of seemingly weak bureaucratic officials. Comparing British and French experiences across today's Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam, Kim examines how the everyday work of local administrators delegitimized the taxing of opium, which in turn made major anti-opium reforms possible.Empires of Vice reveals the inner life of colonial bureaucracy, illuminating how European rulers reconfigured their opium-entangled foundations of governance and shaped Southeast Asia's political economy of illicit drugs and the punitive state.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.2.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Histories of Economic Life
• Reihe/Serie: Histories of Economic Life
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b/w illus. 6 tables. 6 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: activism • Ambivalence • Annexation • Area Studies • Ashley Wright • Bankruptcy • Bernardo Zacka • British colonialism • British Empire • British Malaya • British Overseas Territories • British rule in Burma • Bureaucracy • bureaucrat • Cambodia • Capitalism • Carl Trocki • China • Cholera • Cochinchina • Colonialism • Colonial Office • Commodity • Competition • Consideration • Corruption • Crime • criminalization • Criticism • Crown Colony • Currency • debt • Demoralization (warfare) • Drug Addiction • Dutch East Indies • dysentery • Economic Development • Economics • economy • Federated Malay States • French colonialism • French Indochina • French nationality law • From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control • George Steinmetz • Governance • Government of India • Great Power • Heroin • history of empire • history of narcotics • history of opium • history of the opium trade • hmong people • illegal drug trade • imperialism • Indigenous peoples • indirect tax • Indochina • Informant • Infrastructure • Institution • James Rush • James Scott • Jeremy Adelman • Jews • Jurisdiction • laborer • Laos • Legitimacy (political) • Lower Burma • Mara Loveman • Mixed Economy • Morality • Myanmar • narrative • National Colors • Opium • Opium and Empire • Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia • opium den • Opium pipe • Opium's Long Shadow • Opium to Java • Pelletier • Political Economy • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Precedent • Prohibition • prohibition of drugs • Prostitution • purchasing • Recession • red meat • Regime • Regulatory reform • Ruler • Second Opium War • seeing like a state • sensibility • Shan States • shortage • skepticism • Smuggling • Social Science • Southeast Asia • state actor • Steffen Rimner • stimulant • Straits Settlements • Tax • tax revenue • The Devil's Handwriting • The Other Hand • Vested interest (communication theory) • vulnerability • Wealth • welfare • When the State Meets the Street • World War I • World War II • Yunnan
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19969-8 / 0691199698
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19969-6 / 9780691199696