Opium and Empire
Title | Opium and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Carl A. Trocki |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2019-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501746359 |
Breaking new ground in the historiography of the overseas Chinese and British colonialism, this book focuses on two areas largely ignored by students of the period—opium and the economic role of the group of institutions known as kongsi, or secret societies.
Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia
Title | Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | A. Wright |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2013-11-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137317604 |
This study investigates the connections between opium policy and imperialism in Burma. It examines what influenced the imperial regime's opium policy decisions, such as racial ideologies, the necessity of articulating a convincing rationale for British governance, and Burma's position in multiple imperial and transnational networks.
Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy
Title | Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Trocki |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 113511899X |
Drug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book takes a long look at the history of our relationship with mind-altering substances. Engagingly written, with lay readers as much as specialists in mind, this book will be fascinating reading for historians, social scientists, as well as those involved in Asian studies, or economic history.
Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia
Title | Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | A. Wright |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2013-11-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137317604 |
This study investigates the connections between opium policy and imperialism in Burma. It examines what influenced the imperial regime's opium policy decisions, such as racial ideologies, the necessity of articulating a convincing rationale for British governance, and Burma's position in multiple imperial and transnational networks.
Empires of Vice
Title | Empires of Vice PDF eBook |
Author | Diana S. Kim |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2021-08-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0691199701 |
A Shared Turn : Opium and the Rise of Prohibition -- The Different Lives of Southeast Asia's Opium Monopolies -- "Morally Wrecked" in British Burma, 1870s-1890s -- Fiscal Dependency in British Malaya, 1890s-1920s -- Disastrous Abundance in French Indochina, 1920s-1940s -- Colonial Legacies.
History of the Opium Problem
Title | History of the Opium Problem PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Derks |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 851 |
Release | 2012-04-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004221581 |
Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was introduced in India and Indonesia by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium problem around 1950.
In the Shadows of the American Century
Title | In the Shadows of the American Century PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred W. McCoy |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2017-09-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1608467740 |
The award-winning historian delivers a “brilliant and deeply informed” analysis of American power from the Spanish-American War to the Trump Administration (New York Journal of Books). In this sweeping and incisive history of US foreign relations, historian Alfred McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power from the 1890s through the Cold War, and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century. Since American dominance reached its apex at the close of the Cold War, the nation has met new challenges that it is increasingly unequipped to handle. From the disastrous invasion of Iraq to the failure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, fracturing military alliances, and the blundering nationalism of Donald Trump, McCoy traces US decline in the face of rising powers such as China. He also offers a critique of America’s attempt to maintain its position through cyberwar, covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance.