Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling And States Along The Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915 - Couverture rigide

Tagliacozzo, Eric

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300089686 ISBN 13 : 9780300089684

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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, currency runners, and human traffickers who pierced such newly drawn borders with growing success. The book presents a history of the evolution of this 3000 km frontier, and then inquires into the smuggling of contraband: who smuggled and why, what routes were favoured, and how effectively the British and Dutch were able to enforce their economic, moral, and political will. Examining the history of states and smugglers playing off one another within a hidden but powerful economy of forbidden cargoes, the book also offers new insights into the modern political economies of Southeast Asia.

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À propos de l'auteur

Eric Tagliacozzo is assistant professor of history and Southeast Asian studies at Cornell University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300089686
• ISBN 13: 9780300089684
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible