Opium in the Balkans: Cultivation, Processing and Trade During the Interwar Period - Couverture rigide

Jovanović, Vladan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9633867878 ISBN 13 : 9789633867877

Editeur : Central European University Press, 2025

Synopsis

This book focuses on the cultivation, production, and trafficking of Macedonian raw opium, tracing and contextualizing both the licit and the illicit processing and trade of opium alkaloids from the Western Balkans through Turkey, and to the rest of the world between the two World Wars. He explores this both from the angle of the League of Nations and politicians and diplomats, and by analyzing of the activities of smugglers, police, and ordinary people who participated in its production and distribution. He describes the process of relocating the illegal processing industry from Turkey and Bulgaria to Yugoslavia. He shows the implicit continuity of relations between the former Ottoman Empire and the newly constituted Yugoslav state in the form of bilateral political agreements. He pays special attention to the illegal activities within the legal pharmaceutical industry and exposes the role of criminal networks, which he situates in political and social context.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vladan Jovanovic is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia in Belgrade. His primary research focuses on the integration of the formerly Ottoman territories of Macedonia and Kosovo into Serbia and Yugoslavia. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Tokovi istorije/Currents of History, an academic journal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Central European University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9633867878
• ISBN 13: 9789633867877
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible