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

by Diana Kim

A history of opium’s dramatic fall from favor in colonial Southeast Asia During 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 subjec

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780691199702