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

• Autore: Wright A
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2014.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/1375
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Colonies Asia Administration History; Rakhine State (Burma) History; Tenasserim Division (Burma) History; Burma History 1824-1948; Burma Economic conditions; Burma Colonial influence
• Classificazione: HIS015000HIS037060HIS037070HIS048000
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia
• ISBN: 1-349-33362-X; 1-137-31760-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815728703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, . 2635-1633