Secret trades, porous borders : smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915

Secret trades, porous borders smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915

Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyses the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, curr...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tagliacozzo, Eric (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press 2005.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Yale Historical Publications.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35531022*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Building the frontier : drawing lines in physical space. Mapping the frontier
  • Enforcing the frontier
  • Strengthening the frontier
  • Imagining the frontier : state visions of danger along the border. The specter of violence
  • "Foreign Asians" on the frontier
  • The indigenous threat
  • Secret trades, porous borders. The smuggling of narcotics
  • Counterfeiters across the frontier
  • Illicit human cargoes
  • The illegal weapons trade across the Anglo/Dutch frontier. Munitions and borders : arms in context
  • Praxis and evasion : arms in motion
  • A frontier story : the sorrows of Golam Merican. Contraband and the junk Kim Ban An
  • Worlds of illegality, 1873-99.

Ejemplares similares