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

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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-Eu

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
10 August 2021
Pages
336
ISBN
9780691199702

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-Eu

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
10 August 2021
Pages
336
ISBN
9780691199702