Drugs and empires
Subtitle: essays in modern imperialism and intoxication, c.1500 to c.1930
By: James H. Mills and Patricia Barton [eds.].
Contributors: Mills, James H., 1970-; Barton, Patricia, 1960-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Colonies.; Drug traffic.; Drug control.; Drug control -- International cooperation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: China, British imperialism and the myth of the 'opium plague' / Frank Dik'tter, Lars Laamann, and Xun Zhou; value: Developing habits : opium and tobacco in the Indonesian archipelago, c. 1619-c. 1794 / George Bryan Souza; value: Early British encounters with the Indian opium eater / Richard Newman; value: "Cannot we induce the people of England to eat opium?" The moral economy of opium in colonial India / John F. Richards; value: Opium and the trading world of western India in the early nineteenth century / Amar Farooqui; value: Dangerous drinks and the colonial state : "illicit" gin prohibition and control in colonial Nigeria / Chima J. Korieh; value: Empire and excise : drugs and drink revenue and the fate of states in South Asia / Marc Jason Gilbert; value: Powders, potions and tablets : politics, science and the purity of drugs in British India, 1890 to 1939 / Patricia Barton; value: Colonial Africa and the international politics of cannabis : Egypt, South Africa, and the origins of global control / James H. Mills; value: "A grave danger to the peace of the East" : opium and imperial rivalry in China, 1895-1920 / William O. Walker III; value: 'Wolf by the ears' : the dilemmas of imperial opium policymaking in the 20th century / William B. McAllister; value: The trade-off : Chinese opium and American philanthropy, 1815-1860 / Kelly Gray.