Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication, c.1500 to c.1930

by J. Mills (Editor), P. Barton (Editor)

Overview

Drugs and Empires introduces new research that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world. It re-examines controversies about such issues as the Asian opium trade or the sale of alcohol in Africa and addresses new areas of research, including the impact of imperial drugs profits on American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230516519
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/17/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

PATRICA BARTON Research Fellow at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, University of Strathclyde, UK FRANK DIKOTTER Professor of Modern Chinese History at SOAS, London, UK AMAR FAROOQUI Reader in History, Hans Raj College, University of Delhi, India MARC JASON GILBERT Professor in the Department of History, North Georgia College & State University, USA KELLY GRAY Assistant Professor of History at Towson State University, Maryland, USA CHIMA J. KORIEH Professor of African History in the Department of History of Rowan University, New Jersey, USA WILLIAM B. MCALLISTER Author of Drug Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century: An International History JAMES H. MILLS Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, University of Strathclyde, UK RICHARD NEWMAN Research Associate in the Department of History at SOAS, London, UK JOHN F. RICHARDS Professor in History, Duke University, USA GEORGE BRYAN SOUZA Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA WILLIAM O. WALKER III Professor of History and International Relations at the University of Toronto, Canada

Table of Contents

Introduction; J.H.Mills & P. Barton PART 1: CONSUMPTION China, British imperialism and the myth of the 'Opium Plague'; F.Dikötter , L.Laamann & X.Zhou Developing Habits: Opium and Tobacco in the Indonesian Archipelago, c. 1619-c. 1794; G.B.Souza Early British encounters with the Indian opium eater; R.Newman 'Cannot we induce the people of England to eat opium?' The moral economy of opium in colonial India; J.F.Richards PART 2: CONTROL Opium and the Trading World of Western India in the Early Nineteenth Century; A.Farooqui Dangerous Drinks and the Colonial State: 'Illicit' Gin Prohibition and Control in Colonial Nigeria; C.J.Korieh Empire and Excise: Drugs and drink revenue and the fate of states in south Asia; M.J.Gilbert Powders, Potions and Tablets: The 'quinine fraud' in British India, 1890 to 1939; P.Barton PART 3: 'HIGH' POLITICS Colonial Africa and the international politics of cannabis: Egypt, South Africa and the origins of global control; J.H.Mills 'A grave danger to the peace of the East': Opium and Imperial Rivalry in China, 1895-1920; W.O.Walker III 'Wolf by the Ears': The Dilemmas of Imperial Opium Policymaking in the 20th Century; W.B.McAllister The Trade-Off: Chinese Opium Traders and Antebellum Reform in the United States, 1815-1860; K.Gray