Secret trades, porous borders [electronic resource] : smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915 / Eric Tagliacozzo.
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TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.Description: xvi, 437 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): - Smuggling -- Southeast Asia -- History
- Drug traffic -- Southeast Asia -- History
- Counterfeits and counterfeiting -- Southeast Asia -- History
- Illegal arms transfers -- Southeast Asia -- History
- Southeast Asia -- Commerce -- History
- Southeast Asia -- Boundaries -- History
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- History
- Netherlands -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 19th century
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- HJ7049.8.Z5 T34 2005
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-415) and index.
Building the frontier : drawing lines in physical space. Mapping the frontier -- Enforcing the frontier -- Strengthening the frontier -- Imagining the frontier : state visions of danger along the border. The specter of violence -- "Foreign Asians" on the frontier -- The indigenous threat -- Secret trades, porous borders. The smuggling of narcotics -- Counterfeiters across the frontier -- Illicit human cargoes -- The illegal weapons trade across the Anglo/Dutch frontier. Munitions and borders : arms in context -- Praxis and evasion : arms in motion -- A frontier story : the sorrows of Golam Merican. Contraband and the junk Kim Ban An -- Worlds of illegality, 1873-99.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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