04168nam 22009495 450 991095521720332120240322064648.09781349333622134933362X9781137317605113731760410.1057/9781137317605(CKB)2550000001167777(EBL)1571957(SSID)ssj0001064871(PQKBManifestationID)12392609(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001064871(PQKBWorkID)11052495(PQKB)10314432(SSID)ssj0001659847(PQKBManifestationID)16441283(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001659847(PQKBWorkID)14985935(PQKB)11126914(OCoLC)882250718(MiAaPQ)EBC1571957(DE-He213)978-1-137-31760-5(PPN)265736250(Perlego)3486435(EXLCZ)99255000000116777720151128d2014 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOpium and Empire in Southeast Asia Regulating Consumption in British Burma /by A. Wright1st ed. 2014.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2014.1 online resource (221 p.)Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,2635-1641Description based upon print version of record.9780230296466 0230296467 9781306179751 1306179750 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Burma6 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; IndexThis 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.Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,2635-1641Great BritainHistoryImperialismWorld politicsHistory, ModernAsiaHistorySoutheast AsiaHistoryHistory of Britain and IrelandImperialism and ColonialismPolitical HistoryModern HistoryAsian HistoryHistory of Southeast AsiaGreat BritainHistory.Imperialism.World politics.History, Modern.AsiaHistory.Southeast AsiaHistory.History of Britain and Ireland.Imperialism and Colonialism.Political History.Modern History.Asian History.History of Southeast Asia.338.4/1375HIS015000HIS037060HIS037070HIS048000bisacshWright Aauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1794427BOOK9910955217203321Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia4335079UNINA