Screen LibraryDrugs and empires：essays in modern imperialism and intoxication, c.1500-c.1930
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Basingstoke New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 252 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0230516513 (alk. paper) 9780230516519 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D066 |
| CLC: | D066 |
| Call Number: | D066/D794 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. China, British imperialism and the myth of the 'opium plague' / Frank Dikötter, 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. |