Description: Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia : Regulating Consumption in British Burma, Hardcover by Wright, Ashley, ISBN 0230296467, ISBN-13 9780230296466, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK "This study investigates the connection between the regulation of opium and the exercise of imperial power in colonial Burma. It traces the opium industry from the British annexation of the Burmese territories of Arakan and Tenasserim in 1826 to the end of the colonial era, arguing that this connection was multi-dimensional. The British regime regulated opium to facilitate labour extraction, and the articulation of a rationale for opium policy was inextricable from the articulation of a rationale for colonial rule more generally. Evolving discourses about race invoked opium consumption. Finally, Burma's position in multiple transnational and imperial networks informed its colonial opium policy"--
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Book Title: Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia : Regulating Consumption in Br
Number of Pages: 214 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia: Regulating Consumption in British Burma
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: History
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Weight: 3845 g
Type: Textbook
Author: A. Wright
Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Item Width: 140 mm
Format: Hardcover
