History of the opium problem : the assault on the East ca. 1600 1950 PREFACE PREFACE Acknowledgements Acknowledgements LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS TABLES FIGURES and MAPS LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS TABLES FIGURES and MAPS ILLUSTRATIONS PART ONE THE OPIUM PROBLEM INTRODUCTION THE POLITICS OF GUILT THE ORIGINAL SIN CONCLUSIONs PART TWO THE BRITISH ASSAULT the actual sins A Private English Asian Trading Company Opium on a List A Moral Question TEA FOR OPIUM Vice Versa An Analysis from Within The Bullion Game The Decision Opium Shipping Opium Smuggling Opium Corruption Religion as Opium Opium Banking in a Crown Colony Exorbitant Opium Revenues. On the Chinese SideINDIAN PROFITS Monopoly Opium Production Monopoly Smuggling A Western Competitor Narco business Revenues THE INVENTION OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM PROBLEM Questions An English Home Market for Drugs The Creation of the English Opium Problem A FIRST REFLECTION PART THREE THE DUTCH ASSAULT PORTUGUESE LESSONS Portuguese Elite versus Portuguese Folk Arab Trade in Peace On the Malabar Coast What Did the Dutch Learn about Opium from the Portuguese PEPPER FOR OPIUM VICE VERSA THE BENGAL SCENE The Dutch Connection Mughal Production and Consumption. THE VIOLENT OPIUM COMPANY (VOC) IN THE EASTA Heart of Darkness avant la lettre The Dutch Opium Image Laudanum Paracelsi The Sailors Health The Asiatic Opium Image of the Dutch Double Dutch Violence Monopoly Wars Empire Building The Banda Case and all that Other 17th century Violence Continuous Dutch Violence Dutch Opium Trade: General Questions The Indigenous Producers Opium Consumption in the East Indies THE AMPHIOEN SOCIETY AND THE END OF THE VOC A Brilliant Economist The AS Performance THE CHINESE THE VOC AND THE OPIUM Murder in Batavia Birth of a Chinese Hate Chinese as VictimsChinese and Early Opium Trade FROM TRADE MONOPOLY INTO NARCO STATE MONOPOLY A Transformation from Private into Public Interest The Four Van Hogendorps as Opium Dealers The Birth of a Narco military State TIN FOR OPIUM OPIUM FOR TIN The Opium Business of Billiton PUBLIC ADVENTURES OF A PRIVATE STATE WITHIN THE STATE A Royal Opium Dealer The State within the (Colonial) State THE OPIUM REGIME OF THE DUTCH (COLONIAL) STATE 1850 1940 The Outer Districts The Bali Case The Opiumregie The Dutch Cocaine Industry Legal Hypocrisy A Double Dutch End PROFITS. The Opium FarmerThe Colonial State as Farmer REFLECTIONS PART FOUR THE FRENCH ASSAULT OPIUM IN AND FOR LA DOUCE FRANCE Parisian Fumes The French Pharmaceutical Scene Drugs from abroad THE FRENCH COLONIAL SCENE IN SOUTHE AST ASIA The Beginning of a Disaster The French Opium Performance Revenue Farming The Opiumregie The French Concession in Shanghai The End of a Disaster THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN CONTEXT Introduction From Golden Triangle to Bloody Quadrangle The Tribal Scene The Shan State The Hmong tribe Consumption Pattern Myanmar (Burma) Thailand (Siam) 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