1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955217203321

Autore

Wright A

Titolo

Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia : Regulating Consumption in British Burma / / by A. Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

9781349333622

134933362X

9781137317605

1137317604

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1641

Classificazione

HIS015000HIS037060HIS037070HIS048000

Disciplina

338.4/1375

Soggetti

Great Britain - History

Imperialism

World politics

History, Modern

Asia - History

Southeast Asia - History

History of Britain and Ireland

Imperialism and Colonialism

Political History

Modern History

Asian History

History of Southeast Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Fashioning of Colonial Opium Policy in Arakan and Tenasserim, 1826-1852; 2 Regulating Opium in British Burma, 1852-1885: Addiction, Ethnicity and Revenue; 3 "Lady Britannia, her Children, her Step-Children and her Neighbours": Race and the Regulation of Consumption in Colonial Burma, c.1890; 4 Burma as a "Special Case": Testimony about Burma at the Royal Commission on Opium of 1893-1895; 5 Opium and the



Maintenance of Imperial Rule: The Royal Commission on Opium and the Rationale for British Opium Policy in Burma

6 The Expansion of the Opium Industry in Burma, and the Beginning of the Age of International Conferences, 1895-19147 Burma, the League of Nations and Transnational Opium Policy Networks; 8 Separation, Negotiation and Drug Diplomacy: 1935-1939; Epilogue; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study investigates the connections between opium policy and imperialism in Burma. It examines what influenced the imperial regime's opium policy decisions, such as racial ideologies, the necessity of articulating a convincing rationale for British governance, and Burma's position in multiple imperial and transnational networks.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911035079503321

Autore

Rusiecki Stephen M

Titolo

In final defense of the Reich : the destruction of the 6th SS Mountain Division "Nord" / / Stephen M. Rusiecki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, Md., : Naval Institute Press, c2010

ISBN

1-281-96468-9

9786613793935

1-61251-001-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (488 p.)

Disciplina

940.54/1343

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories - Germany

World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Europe, Northern

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Birth of the Nord Division -- Operation Nordwind and beyond -- The Saar-Palatinate falls -- Convergence -- Nord falls behind, 31 March 1945 -- The first day : Assenheim and Altenstadt, 1 April 1945 -- The second day : Waldensberg, 2 April 1945 -- The second day : Leisenwald, 2 April 1945 -- The third day : dissolution, 3 April 1945 -- Completing the record -- Appendix A. Table of comparative ranks -- Appendix B. Glossary of terms and equipment -- Appendix C. Select



order of battle.

Sommario/riassunto

In April 1945 the American 71st Infantry Division exacted the final vestiges of life from the Reich's 6th SS Mountain Division in central Germany. On Easter weekend, the bypassed German division fought to the very end as they were first surrounded and then destroyed as a fighting force. Rusiecki argues that the battle demonstrates that the Wehrmacht's last gasp on the Western Front was anything but a whimper as some historians charge. Instead, many of Germany's final combat formations fought to the very end against a chaotic tableau of misery, destruction, and suffering to exact every las